Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition offers a unique window into life under a microscope. A tardigrade, colloquially known as water bears, move around a volvox algae colony. Tardigrades are water ...

In Wajima, Japan, where hundreds of homes and studios were destroyed, master-class artisans are struggling to keep lacquer ...

What you think you know isn’t always correct. Just because a false claim gets repeated over and over again doesn’t make it ...

What you think you know isn’t always correct. Just because a false claim gets repeated over and over again doesn’t make it true. And not everything that you see in a photo is actually what happened.

It’s show time. Up heaves the sail, a concertina of heavy canvas pulled taut against the creaking wooden mast. It gulps the breeze that’s whisking cotton puffs of cloud out to sea. Black butterflies, ...

Panda diplomacy has a long history in China, dating back more than 1,300 years. Historical records show that the Empress Wu ...

ISHIGAKI, Japan, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Hitoshi Nakama, 76, sees himself as a frontline defender of Japan's claims to disputed ...

Japan is reviving nuclear power, balancing the need for more clean energy against the lingering trauma of the 2011 Fukushima ...

Tokyo sits like a bathtub below sea level, so Japan built a colossal underground tunnel network to capture stormwater and pump it safely away. This video breaks down how the system works, what it cost ...

A Japanese court has held North Korea responsible for human rights violations against four plaintiffs lured to the country by false promises of a "paradise on Earth." ...

Japanese fans rushed to farewell the country’s last two pandas on Sunday ahead of their return to China, in a departure that highlights strained relations between the two countries.

TOKYO, July 16, 2025 — In this timely talk, Mireya Solís, director of the Center for Asia Policy Studies, maps out three critical dimensions of “Trump 2.0” trade policy: soaring reciprocal and ...