Everyone has their cultural blindspots. In the interests of full disclosure I’ll own up to Oasis, Las Vegas and F1 as things ...

JOMON (10,000 - 300 B.C.) Prehistoric period of tribal/clan organization. Stone Age hunters and gatherers who make jomon (rope-patterned) pottery inhabit Japan. 660 B.C. Mythological Jimmu ("Divine ...

The move is seen as a blow to Microsoft’s effort to globally expand use of Bing. Japan, with an estimated 100 million Web users, is the world’s third largest Internet market. Yahoo Japan ...

Japan, stuck in a liquidity trap, faced a particularly deep economic crisis between 1991 and 2001. The country was actually experiencing a liquidity trap: It seemed like everything Japan’s ...

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What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

One of Japan's most popular tourist attractions is once again donning its famed snowcap. The tiny satellite built in Japan will test the suitability of timber as a renewable material in space.

Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...

The land of Japow beckons, so here's how to make the most of your next ski trip to Japan. Skiing in Japan is synonymous with bottomless powder, delicious food, hot springs, and full immersion in a ...

The Bada Bling is open for business in Colts Neck, NJ, but don’t expect to see any wiseguys in a jiggle joint. The Bling is a “high-energy” pole dancing fitness studio, not a “strip club ...

By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo The steady course of the Japanese economy and business environment that has helped attract a torrent of investment in the past two years could be undercut ...