The Boy and the Heron” finds the filmmaker revising—and sometimes upending—the themes that have defined his career.

There’s no escaping her memories of February 25, 1945—the night American B-29s firebombed Tokyo. Then 13, Takeuchi returned to find cinders where her home had been. Only an iron rice pot survived.

Walk through Japan’s energetic urban heart and see a vibrant, creative culture that bounced back from war and natural disaster. Pedestrians, shoppers, and people-watchers stroll on Chuo-dori in ...

In the war against Japan, Americans firebombed most of the country’s cities. Bass writes that President Harry Truman ...

David Sanger of the New York Times delivers a must-read on the foreign policy challenges now facing US leaders ...

The restroom designed by Shigeru Ban at Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park in Tokyo, as it appears at night. Photo: Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP via Getty Images Movies are machines for generating envy ...

It brings together memories of the Japanese wolf, now extinct, with the Tokyo Air Raids of 1945. Towards the end of World War 2, the United States firebombed central Tokyo, killing over a lakh ...

Dreamed up by visionary Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, the Tokyo Edition, Ginza is the first true five-star hotel in the neighborhood. Nicole Trilivas is a British-American writer based in London ...

Tokyo is a city of over 100,000 restaurants, and sometimes it feels like half of them are serving the same dish: ramen. This quintessential Japanese dish comes in various guises, from meaty Hakata ...

The past, present and future of Tokyo intertwine to create a dazzling city built on a rich traditional culture, with an exciting vision of what is to come. With endless choices of shopping ...

OpenAI is expanding to Japan, with the opening of a new Tokyo office and plans for a GPT-4 model optimized specifically for the Japanese language. The move is significant for a few reasons.