The ancient tradition of women free diving for shellfish can still be seen in Japan’s unspoilt Shima Peninsula.

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

Some modern Japanese people may have a higher body mass index, or BMI, thanks to DNA they inherited from prehistoric hunter-gatherers. In a new study, researchers analyzed the genomes of more than ...

This spring and summer, Japan’s ancient aesthetic heritage meets the cutting edge of animation. On at the Tokyo National ...