Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae has vowed in her New Year's message to carry out necessary reforms and bring strength, ...

Hagoita (battledores) are traditional Japanese wooden paddles used to play hanetsuki (hitting a feathered shuttlecock), a game similar to badminton. Both the game and the paddles have existed since at ...

In Japan, the Showa era lasted from 1926 to 1989. In the popular imagination, though, the word “Showa” most strongly draws up memories of the period from the late ‘50s to the early ‘80s, when the ...

Perhaps portending a tumultuous era ahead, unseasonably severe winter rain and a thunderstorm struck the Hayama imperial villa in Kanagawa Prefecture where the gravely ill Emperor Yoshihito was lying ...

*First broadcast on May 19, 2022. The "Showa era" was the period of Japanese history between 1926 and 1989. The 60s, 70s and 80s are fondly remembered in Japan as a time when many were feeling the ...

Japan trends 2025 reshaped everyday life, from retro culture and food to work—plus what these trends mean for 2026.

graphic novel in English of comparable depth and scope is Art Spiegelman’s Maus. Originally published in 1988-89, Showa is the first installment in a 4-volume set that will be issued in the US over ...