Many of us know that Japan took its Buddhism, its urban design, its flower-viewing rites and several of its art forms from China, often by way of Korea. You feel that influence today everywhere from ...

Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

Lined with various stores and evoking memories of the Showa era (1926-1989), a shopping street in Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward is ...

The city of Kobe's Ijinkan-gai (foreigners' house district) is a hillside neighborhood featuring European-style houses built ...

Check out exciting menu highlights from Next Door inside Wegmans, opening for champagne hour and dinner service on April 30.

Sushi chef Woepa Zegid is from Tibet, but he fell in love with American country music and Japanese cuisine shortly after he came to the U.S. at age 17. Zegid remembers his first taste of yellowtail ...

Seafood lovers know the fatty marbling is what makes tuna sashimi and sushi so tasty, so for the industry, it’s the fish’s ...

One of the great advantages to writing about foreign food in Washington is access to people who know the subjects well, either because they’re from the place you want to know more about or because ...

(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) BEIJING (Kyodo) -- China said Monday it found no abnormalities in seawater and marine life samples that it independently collected in late February near Japan's crippled ...

Hence, these recent sightings of elusive deep-sea creatures, including the so-called "Doomsday Fish," have sparked curiosity and speculation, with many questioning whether these appearances could be ...

Subsequently, Japanese fish buyers conducted a brisk trade with the natives at the mouth of the Amur. But the special fishing rights exercised by Japan spring from Article 11 of the Treaty of ...