The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

Only seven years into her marriage did Yuki Niimi first touch her husband -- at a morgue where she collected his body after he was executed, and kissed him in a coffin.

The Japanese film "The 35-Year Promise" is based on the true story of a man unable to read or write who was determined to send love letters to his wife. This report explores how he changed his life.

Our small-city orchestra was blessed by the music making of a world-class conductor, says the letter writer. Akiyama died in ...