By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun About a century ago, a British expedition stumbled upon the remains of an ancient pagoda in the jungle in what was then called Ceylon.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Emperor Akihito attended the opening ceremony of the 198th ordinary Diet session on Jan. 28 to deliver what will apparently be his final ritual speech.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun MELBOURNE, Australia--With no more immediate worlds to conquer, newly minted world No. 1 tennis player Naomi Osaka is looking forward to her favorite Japanese foo…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Fittingly for Naomi Osaka, who is half-Japanese, half-Haitian, the team who helped her win a second Grand Slam title at the Australian Open on Jan. 26 is ethnical…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun MELBOURNE, Australia--So close to victory, Naomi Osaka suddenly was letting the Australian Open final slip away. Three championship points? Gone. A sizable lead? …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun The South Korean National Defense Ministry on Jan. 24 released photographic evidence to back its claim that a Japanese patrol aircraft conducted a “threatening fl…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Globally renowned management guru Peter Drucker (1909-2005) had another lesser-known passion--collecting old Japanese art.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun KUJUKURI, Chiba Prefecture--A spitting image of Banksy's famous painting, “Girl with Balloon,” has surfaced here, only days after graffiti in Tokyo ignited global…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun KYOTO--After touring several properties here, a Chinese man decided to buy a Japanese-style house worth about 100 million yen ($926,000) and spend several tens of…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun KYOTO--Due to popular demand, a night-time cherry blossom viewing event will return along the Shirakawa river in the city’s Gion-Shinbashi district in Higashiyama…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun After making gyoza dumplings at a Chinese restaurant, an 83-year-old woman heads to Tokyo’s Kabukicho red-light district where she dons a long, curly blond wig, w…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun The world governing body for basketball has cast a suspicious eye on the large number of foreign players at Japanese senior high schools.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun GINOWAN, Okinawa Prefecture--A 27-year-old activist entered the fourth day of a hunger strike on Jan. 18 in front of a city office calling for the participation o…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun A school uniform maker apologized and withdrew an advertisement poster that said “short skirts trigger sexual crimes.”

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun A long-lost handscroll depicting the protagonist of The Tale of Genji grieving over a perished paramour has been found in France.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Celebrated Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo said he will take on the venerable stage name Danjuro in 2020, following in his father’s footsteps.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun GOBO, Wakayama Prefecture--The surprise hit of the season here is aimed at cat lovers who think no winter evening is complete without devouring "mikan" oranges wh…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Schools in three prefectures have discovered that art props and anatomical replicas in their classrooms were actually human skulls of unidentified individuals.

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Unless Carlos Ghosn is unexpectedly re-arrested on new accusations, the next major judicial test surrounding the former chairman of Nissan Motor Co. will be wheth…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun After tossing around opponents for 33 years and winning three straight Olympic gold medals, wresting great Saori Yoshida thanked her parents and called it a caree…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture has rejected as false Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s remark that rare corals were transplanted beforehand from the site of land reclamation …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Musician Ryuichi Sakamoto says he is determined to use his celebrity status to speak out against construction of a new U.S. military base in Okinawa Prefecture, e…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun KYOTO--Geisha and their apprentices, called “maiko,” pledged to practice and work hard this year to improve their performances at their New Year's business openin…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun KURASHIKI, Okayama Prefecture--This area of western Japan paid a heavy price for its small police presence when record flooding here claimed dozens of lives last …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Elementary schoolgirl Sumire Nakamura will debut as the youngest professional go player ever in Japan in spring, when she turns 10, carrying Japanese hopes for a …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun OSAKA--American League Rookie of the Year Shohei Ohtani swapped his uniform for a suit to visit a child in hospital here in need of a heart transplant whose name …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun KYOTO--Grabbing up cards almost faster than the eye could follow, players battled it out in the Karuta Hajime Shiki, the ceremonial first “karuta” card game of th…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun When it snowed in Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito was often painfully reminded of an attempted coup d'etat that occurred early in his reign, noting on one occasion that h…

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun Scholars are stunned by the discovery of a trove of handwritten "waka" poems by Emperor Hirohito in his waning years, a number of which dwell on World War II and …

By clicking above image, you can go to original article in The Asahi Shimbun OKUMA, Fukushima Prefecture--On his rather lonely rounds, Satoru Saeki looks for anything out of place in an empty town center marred by broken windows, uncollect…