The bloodlines of modern Japanese lie with immigrants from the Korean Peninsula who arrived in the archipelago during the Yayoi Pottery Culture Period (1000 B.C.-A.D. 250), new research suggests.

Each week we will look at one significant work of Japanese literature situating it in its historical, cultural, and social context, from the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the present. We will explore ...

Medieval Europe’s diverse regional cultures were balanced by a conscious attempt to create a unified view of the world that embraced religious and social ideals, Latin and vernacular literature, and ...

The Japanese government will also extend the period of validity of the Chinese group tourist visa from the current 15 days to 30 days, Iwaya said. In addition, Chinese citizens 65 or older will ...

Japan’s preserved Edo-period villages offer living windows into the nation’s fascinating past, where traditional architecture and centuries-old customs thrive. These remarkable settlements ...

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He’ll be remembered and studied for hundreds of years. He almost single-handedly put modern Japanese literature on the world map. If Murakami doesn’t win the Nobel Prize for Literature before ...

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The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...