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 ...

British and Japanese scientists are conducting new research seeking to discover how Japan's marine ecosystem may be affected by global warming. They are studying the potential side effects of rising acidity in Japan's seas caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Previous studies ...

In the mid-1950s, Britain's relations with Japan were still fragile in the aftermath of the war and Japanese residents of London felt a strong desire to heal the wounds. It was against this backdrop that the then-Japanese ambassador's wife, Fukiko Nishi, set up an organization ...

Despite Nissan Motor Co.'s decision to keep automotive production in Britain after its exit from the European Union, industry experts have mixed views over whether other Japanese carmakers will follow suit. Experts interviewed are unsure how freely British firms will be able to trade in ...