Currently, banks voluntarily set the upper limit on cash withdrawals from ATMs at ¥500,000 per day, with no legal regulations ...

NHK took to the streets of Osaka and asked 59 people chosen at random to pose for pictures. Forty-seven of them, or 80 percent, spontaneously made the peace sign. When asked why they did it, one ...

“In the morning, as I was putting away my futon, my mother said, ‘Fumiko, Japan has finally gone to war with America and Britain.’” Fumiko Ohara was a fourth-year student in Shotoka (the ...

HIMEJI, Hyogo Prefecture—Himeji Mayor Hideyasu Kiyomoto said he is considering charging foreign tourists a fee to enter Himeji Castle that is six times higher than the price for Japanese visitors.

Philip Kan Gotanda spent more than four decades as a filmmaker and playwright before he decided to try storytelling in a new format: opera. Gotanda, whose work focuses primarily on the Japanese ...