Kyoto’s iconic Gion district holds secrets that only emerge when the sun sets, and most tourists head back to their hotels.

The film was long and getting longer by the day. Worse still, the director was bent on shooting outdoors, on a mountainous peninsula west of Tokyo, and the rain, during the interminably long ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

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LOS ANGELES – Actor Junichi Okada has a very particular set of skills. Although best known in Japan as a movie star, the 45-year-old is also a martial arts whizz with a black belt in Brazilian ...