Former yokozuna professional sumo grand champion Hakuho, now stablemaster Miyagino, will retire from the Japan Sumo ...

‘Mizu uchiwa,’ or translucent paper fans, are in peak production for summer season in Gifu Prefecture.

THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) intends to invest $24 billion on what it considers the food basket of Southeast Asia, the Brunei Darussalam–Indonesia–Malaysia–Philippines East Asean Growth Area (BIMP ...

RICE is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval- shaped sticky Japonica grain, which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the ...