Naoko Abe's "'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms," an enchanting story about an Englishman's attempts to preserve Japan's rich cherry tree heritage in the face of rapid modernization, is due to hit bookshelves across the world in March.

Japan's marine life could see "unprecedented changes" if carbon dioxide emissions keep increasing, a team of British, Japanese and Italian scientists warned in a recently published study. The academics have been studying the effects of higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere upon marine fauna and ...

No request is ever too much for Toru Machida, who prides himself on fulfilling the needs of guests at one of the world's most famous five-star hotels. Machida, originally from Tokyo, is the head concierge at The Savoy, the grand London inn that has played ...

Japan's response to the Gulf War in 1990 was "too little, too late" and made the economic superpower look like a "political pygmy," according to a critical assessment by Britain's ambassador to Japan in recently declassified files. Writing in March 1991, John Whitehead said Tokyo's ...

A new play based on the abduction of Japanese citizens to North Korea has been captivating and educating audiences at the National Theatre in London. "The Great Wave," which tells the fictional story of one family's fight to find out what happened to their missing ...

Japanese men are showing a "softer" side at work and in the home but some of their traditional masculine attitudes are still prevailing, according to new research by Cambridge University. Graduates and academics have produced a book looking at how Japanese men are slowly changing ...

Japan's soft power has been boosted immeasurably by its decades-long policy of recruiting foreign graduates to come and teach in the country, according to a study by a British-based researcher. Sharleen Estampador-Hughson, from the University of Sheffield, argues that the experience of living in the ...

Despite hopes for a good free trade deal with Japan, the United Kingdom is unlikely to improve on the recent agreement between Tokyo and Brussels, and could end up worse off, experts say. They argue the U.K., on its own, could lose negotiating leverage with ...

Robert Soanes perhaps was not your typical British teenager. But he never considered himself to be a warrior, either. While most of his friends were following traditional pursuits, Soanes's childhood love of East Asia was flourishing, with a passion for martial arts, samurai swords and ...

Appalled by the shocking sight of emaciated and dying dogs and horses in Tokyo after World War II, two British women set about raising money to improve animal welfare in Japan and, in the process, changed public attitudes in the country. More than six decades ...