While traveling through Japan in May, I stumbled upon the annual Himeji Castle Festival. One of the city’s significant events is a multi-day celebration of the samurai heritage and culture here ...

A-List travel advisor and Japan specialist Mark Lakin shares a list of under-the-radar cities, neighborhoods, and experiences ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has started a weeklong visit to Mongolia that will honor Japanese World War II prisoners.

A large-scale international workshop on disaster preparedness held under Japan's initiative has opened in Taiwan, which is frequently struck by calamities such as earthquakes and typhoons.

Revitalizing the space under Tokyo’s train tracks Developers find new life in the city’s forgotten viaducts — as shops, studios and even a campsite ...

A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan's Justice Ministry said.

A dog was rescued from a locker for valuables at Neuschwanstein Castle in southern Germany after its owner shut her pet inside over the objections of other tourists so that she could visit the ...

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.