Sakura is Japan’s most iconic tree, and Kagoshima is famous for its cherry blossoms. Both the sakura flower and leaf appear in Ukiyo Japanese Blossom Gin, two of 11 botanicals in a delicately floral, ...

TOKYO—The Japanese defense ministry looks increasingly likely to recommend building an indigenous fighter for service in the 2030s under the designation F-3. Alternatives to the decision, due in about ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - On a wooded lake shore in northern Japan, the government is building a modernist shrine that has divided the indigenous Ainu community whose vanishing culture it was designed to ...