Jon Woodhouse, who writes regular arts and entertainment articles for The Maui News, is currently traveling in Japan and ...

Historical anime fans who enjoyed The Apothecary Diaries are spoiled with choice when it comes to other, similar anime of the ...

You can enjoy the Edo atmosphere in the village where Edo townspeople, such as samurais with topknots and merchants, walk around. The park also holds seasonal events that are unique to Japan such as O ...

However, when I traveled by train for about three hours to a mountain village in ... same level as in the Edo Period, in 100 years. What has become of the prosperity that Japan has been pursuing ...

Fun fact: before becoming a park in 1967, Yoyogi was the Olympic Village for the 1964 Tokyo ... and check out the Imperial ...

The anime mini-series is set during the Edo period and centers on Miyamoto Musashi, who is considered Japan’s greatest swordsman ... to stop a guy named Iemon who is terrorizing a nearby village.

This tour lays the perfect groundwork for your Japan trip, offering a comprehensive understanding of Tokyo's history and culture. Uncover the fascinating history of Tokyo’s development from a village ...

As Japan’s cultural heart, it invites returning visitors to ... fueled “death game” from Alice in Borderland or chatting with actors in the walk-through Edo-era Tales of Edo Oiran. Multilingual ...

The village of Ichinono is emblematic of Japan's demographic woes as marriages and births continue to decline.

"We're now paying the price." This photo taken on October 21, shows puppets in the village of Ichinono, one of the "puppet villages" in Japan created to ease the lonesome feelings due to ...

One of the buildings still had a sign that read "Vietnamese restaurant." According to investigative sources, most of the Vietnamese people who lived there had come to Japan as technical intern ...