The country’s objects and ideas, including matcha and emojis, that have had an outsize influence on the world.

Many of us know that Japan took its Buddhism, its urban design, its flower-viewing rites and several of its art forms from China, often by way of Korea. You feel that influence today everywhere from ...

His finely tuned palette is highly sought after in Tokyo, where food culture has become an obsession. Tuna is the country's most prized fish, with a single fish selling for $2.2 million at the first ...