People use "bocchi" to poke fun at themselves, express a genuine sense of isolation, or a little of both. Japan widely enables bocchi culture. Living and eating out alone here are commonplace, with ...

Qatar and Japan continue to strengthen their already robust cultural ties by expanding artistic collaborations beyond traditional exchanges, a Japanese embassy official in Doha said.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has renewed a pledge to build up his country’s military and deepen its alliance with ...

The knowhow for producing traditional Japanese alcoholic drinks, including sake and distilled spirits such as shochu and awamori, is set to be added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

Tokyo, Nov. 5 (Jiji Press)--An advisory panel to UNESCO has sought to register traditional Japanese sake brewing techniques using koji mold as intangible cultural heritage, Japan's Cultural ...

Today, Hokkaido represents the northernmost prefecture of modern Japan, but it was not always ... timeline of the region and include some of the cultural elements to come out of these later ...