Riyadh – Japan’s Forever Young hunted down Hong Kong racing royalty Romantic Warrior to win the the $20 million Saudi Cup, the world’s richest race, in Riyadh on Saturday. Romantic...

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about nabe (hot pot) recently, but I didn’t expect my search for new flavors to lead me to the Iranian city of Tabriz. Located...

Last year, the global demand for matcha put an unprecedented strain on Japan’s tea industry, and it’s likely to happen again. Murmurs of the “matcha shortage” have been circulating since...

When U.S. President Donald Trump sat down to lunch with his Japanese counterpart this month, talk turned quickly to how Tokyo could help realize a decades-old proposal to unlock gas...

Tomoka Shibasaki’s short stories don’t run on human time; they run on architectural time. In her curious collection “A Hundred Years and a Day,” released on Feb. 25 in English...

Matsue, Shimane Pref. – The skies over Shimane are always dramatic, almost supernaturally so. It’s befitting an area that’s known as “Land of the Gods,” the setting of many Shinto...

HONG KONG – As President Donald Trump uses tariffs as a weapon in his quest to even the score on trade with the world, Asia is emerging as target No....

JERUSALEM/CAIRO – Hamas released a body on Friday it claimed to be that of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas, whose misidentification in a handover this week threatened to derail the fragile...

The deflation-fueled outperformance of Chinese bonds has lured in a Tokyo-based investor for the first time. A team that oversees investment in foreign government bonds at Asset Management One started...