Culture clash leaves Japanese afflicted with 'Paris syndrome'
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For years visitors to the French capital have complained of the rudeness of the locals, but now there are the first documented victims: hundreds of young Japanese women who have fallen prey to what a Japanese ...
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Arts & entertainment: Hiroshige's prints of 19th-century Japan conjure up an impossibly tranquil world but don't be fooled
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bolts. Blame the system.
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Tycho:  Otherwise engaged on Wednesday, Tokyo had a head start on us - its powerful newsings daring to accrue, even as we were being sodomized at the border crossing.  Much of this content was indecipherable.  But we can still point and shriek, like when a monolith descends.
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World's largest mammal is regarded as a delicacy in Japan, but seen as a cause in the West.
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Japanese homemakers who moonlight as currency speculators have been hit hard by turmoil in the markets.
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It remains safe to say that Japanese choreographers are not yet done milking the repressed-chaos theme.
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Japan's relations with the United States are "unshakable" despite a U.S. congressional resolution urging a further apology from Tokyo over wartime sex slaves, the Japanese government spokesman said Wednesday.
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The crisis is a political challenge for Koizumi, who decided to send Japanese troops to Iraq despite strong public opposition. &quot;We cannot tolerate terrorism and we will not give in to terrorism,&quot; Koizumi told reporters on Wednesday.
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For Koreans living in Japan, support for Pyongyang used to be a matter of ethnic pride, but today, most turn away from Kim Jong Il
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Japan grappled Wednesday with the fallout from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to a Tokyo war shrine, as diplomats reportedly worked to mend frayed ties with China and South Korea.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is stumbling over the same controversial anti-terror legislation that brought down his predecessor, Shinzo Abe
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All of the people killed, and many of the thousands left homeless, by this weekâs earthquake in Japan were older than 65, reflecting the rising vulnerability of one of the worldâs most rapidly aging societies.
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Science has dealt a blow to a Japanese legend which says the country was twice saved from a Mongolian fleet thanks to a "divine wind," or kamikaze, that destroyed the invaders' ships.
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The case has focused attention on the tension between parts of JapanÂs corporate establishment and a recent tilt toward American-style capitalism.
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The troubled negotiations over whether to build the world&#39;s largest nuclear fusion facility in France or Japan have finally come to a head.
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Sometimes culture clash can be a productive thing. For instance, handing a flexible collaborative package such as Microsoft's SharePoint to a bunch of Marines -- not the most flexibility-oriented organization around -- is leading to good changes for the service. The path to productivity was, however, not the usual orderly march.