Mie Takahashi is one of a small group of female toji, or master Japanese sake brewers. Only 33 female toji are registered in ...

Ninety percent of paddle-style fans, called uchiwa, are made in the island city of Marugame. Uchiwa, traditional hand-held ...

The Japanese company has denied it would import steel from its international mills into U.S. and said it aims to become an "insider" in the U.S., a market it considers crucial to its growth plans.

so the government wants solutions to avoid "kodokushi" — the Japanese term that means a lonely death. At the age of 85, Ikuko Arai finally retired on November 30. She says she is happy to step ...

New novel The City and its Uncertain Walls gives its two narrators different words for “I” in Japanese – a nuance that is ...

STORY: Nippon Steel's $15 billion takeover attempt of U.S. Steel took another turn on Monday (December 9). The head of a powerful labor union opposed to the deal spoke out. He said he has not ...

(Reuters) -The head of a powerful labour union opposing U.S. Steel's sale to Japan's Nippon Steel said ... that would assure us that there's a long-term viability in the operations," McCall ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --A group of Japanese survivors of the World War II atomic bombings on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 is set to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Tuesday. The delegation touched down ...

(Reuters) -The head of a powerful labour union opposing U.S. Steel's sale to Japan's Nippon Steel said he has not received ... there's been nothing that would assure us that there's a long-term ...