The PBS series Monstrum examined the ancient Japanese legend of Bake-kujira, a ghostly whale that seeks vengeance on humans.

Explore a life rooted in traditional Japanese culture, carried with pride into the modern age. From ancient rituals and ...

Jackson likes getting up early. “If I didn’t have to sleep, I wouldn’t.” Annie Flanagan A 1993 riot at the facility—some years after Jackson was transferred out—left one guard and nine ...

This museum showcases the history of Abashiri Prison, which housed convicts who were used to dig out Hokkaido's central road. Structures from the late 19th and early 20th century are preserved and ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

The condition of the fossil made it impossible to study ancient DNA. But recently, scientists in Taiwan, Japan and Denmark were able to extract some protein sequences from the incomplete jawbone.

TOTTORI—The face of a Japanese woman who lived around 1,800 years ago and wouldn't look out of place today has been re-created in a stunning visualization. A bust of the long-deceased woman ...

ancient rites, history and divination. The sixth, on music, may have disappeared in the 3rd-century-B.C. “Burning of Books and Burying of Scholars.” More than 2,000 scholars contributed to ...

The Nikkei225 index is the most widely quoted average of Japanese stocks. Topix is considered to be another major index for the Japanese equity markets it is quite similar to the Dow Jones ...