At a bookstore event here half a year ago, this Mainichi Shimbun reporter met a woman from Peru who said she has lived in ...

Research has shown that human bodily responses and cognitive shifts affect each other in both directions. We feel sorry ...

The sacrifices of veterans deserve not only acknowledgment but action. For Guam’s veterans, questions remain: Are they being treated with the honor and respect commensurate with their service ...

Emoji date back to 1999 when they first appeared on Japanese cell phones. But it’s history goes further than that, because ...

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at a Buddhist temple in downtown Tokyo, eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried ...

While ‘emoticon’ means ‘emotion’ + ‘icon’ — the right word for the little emotion expressing icons on your smartphone’s keyboard, ‘emoji’ means ‘pictograph’ in Japanese. The ‘E’ stands for picture or ...

They are harmless to people and are known to fearlessly approach ... with digestive issues or even a parasitic infection, the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported. Turns out it just ...

Ichiro Suzuki, a hits machine on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, became the first Japanese player to gain entry into the National Baseball Hall of Fame when he was elected Tuesday to the class of ...

This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real challenge faced by staff at a Japanese aquarium ... turned toward makeshift “people” made from cardboard ...

(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO (AP) — Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water on Saturday in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese tradition to purify the ...