In 1977, British author and long-term Tokyo resident Alan Booth made a journey on foot from the northernmost point in Japan, Cape Soya, to Kyushu’s southernmost tip, Cape Sata. Booth’s account of that epic trek, “The Roads to Sata,” became one of the classic ...

After spending 2½ years living the quiet life in Shiga Prefecture, Ryukoku University student Victor Rosenhoj was looking forward to moving to Kyoto, where things promised to be more lively and international.

The story reads like a New Zealand news editor’s wish list: Celebrity, dangerous weapons, bizarre behavior, death threats, Brazilian street gangs and a mysterious love interest.

Cast in bronze, Hachiko sits in a position of prominence befitting a storied daimyo or prime minister, right next to the busiest intersection in Japan, if not the world.

Australian Catherine Fisher is one step closer to seeing justice done after a Milwaukee Circuit Court judge decided earlier this month to hear the case against former U.S. serviceman Bloke T. Deans, who raped her in Japan in 2002. Fisher, who lives in Tokyo, ...

Australian Catherine Jane Fisher, who was raped by a U.S. Navy sailor in Yokosuka in 2002, has now taken her case for compensation all the way to the U.S. courts. A civil judgment by a Tokyo court in 2004 ordered Bloke T. Deans to ...

Although no official statement has been made by the artist or her representatives, evidence points to links between high-profile Japanese pop star AI (Ai Carina Uemura) and at least one, if not both, of the suspects being questioned over the rape and murder of ...

If there is no bond deeper or love stronger than that between a parent and a child, then equally, there is no pain greater than when that bond is broken or that love taken away. For father Akio Yokota, the pain of being separated ...

When Wayne Douglas arrived home in New Zealand from Japan in early 2001, his own mother didn’t recognize him at the airport. “She said that I looked like a half-dead zombie,” Douglas recalls. “My mother had to drive me to the doctors’ rooms, which ...

Elementary school student Jian Macdonald had always thought policemen were cool — especially ones that rode fast motorcycles. In September last year, Jian was riding through Ueno on the back on his father’s motorbike when they spotted a traffic cop at the side of ...

As an 8-year-old in Indiana, William first became curious about Japan when he made friends with a Japanese guy called Hideki who introduced him to Super Mario and the magical world of Japanese video games. As he grew older, his interest in Japan broadened ...

On Bruce Gherbetti’s right forearm, the names of his three lost children are permanently inscribed in a swirling script of dark blue tattoo ink. “They go with me everywhere I go,” he says, smiling. “It is a physical representation of the fact that my ...