British museums and galleries are looking for ways to revitalize their collections of Japanese artifacts and increase the public's interest in them. Britain has one of the largest and most diverse collections of Japanese items outside Japan. There are an estimated half a million objects ...

LONDON (Kyodo) Former Far East prisoners-of-war in Britain have given a mixed reaction to a proposal by an Imperial Japanese Army veteran to have the ruins of the infamous Thailand-Burma railway designated a World Heritage site. Some former POWs are suspicious of the initiative and ...

LONDON (Kyodo) Campaigners on Monday called on Japan to lead efforts to strengthen the international code on the export of small arms. The London-based International Action Network on Small Arms, a group of more than 700 civic organizations around the world, wants the rules to ...

LONDON (Kyodo) Despite her rather formal appearance, Queen Elizabeth is known to enjoy the occasional joke and can take pleasure when formal proceedings don't go exactly as planned. However, one potential slight on Japan's Imperial family was just too much for her, according to a ...

LONDON (Kyodo) BBC Japan, the British Broadcasting Corp.'s channel dedicated to Japanese viewers, has had an encouraging start since its December launch, but senior managers acknowledge that the choice of a digital platform has caused criticism. The channel, a mixture of light entertainment, documentaries and ...

A pillar of the British establishment was passing secret information about aviation design to Japan during the 1920s, according to secret government files declassified Thursday. The British Foreign Office files from 1926 show that Lord Sempill, reputedly one of the founders of the Royal Flying ...