Japan's experience began with the Plaza Accord of 1985, when Japan, the United States, Britain, France and West Germany agreed to coordinate foreign exchange policies to address currency imbalances.

The Japan Meteorological Agency warned of heavy downpours in Tokyo and six other prefectures through Monday, citing the combined effects of a typhoon and ...

The very idea of Tokyo – one of most densely packed cities on the planet – can be intimidating even before getting off the plane. In reality, however, it is a refreshingly easy city to visit.

Tetsuo Sato is one of 100,000 Japanese who are now over 100 years old. He plans on celebrating his 107th birthday at a hot springs hotel.

In 1946, anthropologist Ruth Benedict published The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture. The American government had tapped her as a researcher during World War II to help ...

Omamori are Japan’s meaningful, pocket-sized good luck charms—perfect, affordable souvenirs with deep cultural roots and ...

Tokyo is getting a futuristic addition to its famously efficient transport network. To accompany its train and subway systems, which are so bafflingly punctual that a 20-second delay warrants a formal ...

And even steeper decline seems to be in store. Japan's National Institute of Population and Social Security Research projects that, under its "medium scenario," the country's population will fall to ...