When organic chemist Takayuki Honda visited Okinawa Island in southern Japan a few years ago, he purchased a small dish coated with the glossy vermilion lacquer that’s characteristic of the region.

From the word go. the tactics were new, strange, decisive. It is nothing new for Japanese Cabinets to fall while still young, for in the last nine years ten have fallen. But the way the Cabinet of ...

TOKYO, Japan (CNN)-- Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has reshuffled his Cabinet in an effort to boost his sagging political clout. The prime minister asked the Cabinet on Friday to resign en ...

View post on X Captioning the snaps, he wrote: "Update on #althorpunlocked - Lily opened an 18th-century Japanese lacquer cabinet & Ailsa unlocked an 18th-century Japanese lacquer casket-on-stand.

Japan’s government Thursday ended a weeklong ... calling on residents to be prepared to flee immediately. A Cabinet Office disaster response official, Tsukasa Morikubo, announced the end of ...

The piece in question is small compared to the massive project the two men have been through, but the ancient Japanese art of ...

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a press conference in Tokyo on Monday. "The parties continue talks feeling the weight of national interests, so sometimes a heated exchange ...

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 ...

Japan’s government has ended a weeklong information campaign urging caution and preparedness for a possible megaquake — an ...

Charles Spencer loves sharing updates of his famous family home, Althorp House, and on Wednesday posted a rather mysterious ...