The island was still an exotic destination for Westerners nearly 70 years after Commodore Matthew Perry sailed his U.S. fleet into Edo Bay, and Einstein was deeply impressed by Japanese culture ...

A star-shaped fort with the first French-style fortifications in Japan. The Battle of Hakodate took place here ... shogunate army before their surrender in 1869. Cannons, stone wall, and other objects ...

Wall Street Today: US stocks opened higher as investors await a positive outcome from the tariff talks between the United States and Japan. (Getty Images via AFP) Wall Street Today: US stock ...

Japan’s antitrust regulator instructed Alphabet’s GOOGL-1.42%decrease; red down pointing triangle Google to stop what it said are anticompetitive practices involving mobile search services ...

TOKYO—Japan is ready to help the U.S. achieve its economic goals, but in a way that’s mutually beneficial, Japan’s economy minister said ahead of trade talks with the Trump administration.

Oluwaseun Olayiwola is a poet, critic and inaugural member of the Rose Choreographic School in Sadlers Wells East, London.

With a population of more than 37 million, Tokyo is the biggest metro area in the world, filled with bright lights, big crowds and some of the most complicated toilets I’ve ever seen.

Investors were feeling a little bit calmer on Thursday after President Donald Trump said trade talks between the U.S. and Japan were off ... a widely-followed Wall Street fear gauge that tracks ...

This is the first “Yurei Zu” (ghost painting) in Japan confirmed to be an original by Okyo, a popular and influential painter from the Edo Period (1603-1867), according to a member of the city ...

NEW YORK--U.S. stocks climbed again on Monday as Wall Street’s wild roller-coaster ride veers back upward. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% for a second straight gain after it fell 10% below its ...