Japan’s countryside is scattered with over eight million abandoned homes, or akiya, often marketed as a dream for those ...

A preliminary 2.7-magnitude earthquake shook the East Bay overnight Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The ...

A lacquerware craftsmanship training facility in Japan's Wajima City has finally held its long-delayed entrance ceremony ...

The University of Tokyo has begun soliciting donations for planned work on the famous Akamon red gate on its Hongo campus in ...

While temperatures for the coming winter are expected to align with seasonal averages, heavy snow is anticipated in parts of the Sea of Japan coast, including earthquake-affected areas in the Noto ...

The Ishikawa Prefectural Wajima Institute of Lacquer Arts in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, held its entrance ceremony on ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the northern Philippines, as authorities warned of damage and aftershock from the ...

Five hundred agents, some in riot gear, fenced off the Airin General Centre, ordering homeless people to move. The 1970 Expo ...

South Korea’s National Assembly voted to lift an emergency declaration of martial law just hours after President Yoon Suk ...

Los Angeles-based architecture firm Alloi takes a mish-mash of old additions and infuses it with natural materials, feng shui ...

In this exclusive excerpt from his new autobiography, Dreaming Japanese, the guitarist looks back at his early years, when he ...

City-level strategies to cope with climate change can benefit from the insights of volcano scientists, who have long ...