Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article. Forget the cherry blossoms and the flashy Tokyo hotels, because starting this April, for the ...

Happinet announced its real-time, first-person dungeon RPG, Hyakki Castle, will launch for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 as Hyakki Castle: Kougi Onmitsu Roku in Japan on August 30 for 1,389 ...

An early Edo period document stipulating the Hosokawa clan code of conduct for vassals dispatched on a national project to rebuild Sunpu Castle has been discovered by Kumamoto University researchers.

Every May, the grounds surrounding Himeji Castle hold the Himeji Castle Festival (Himeji Oshiro Matsuri). Held over three days, this historic celebration blends Edo-period reenactments, traditional ...

The 16-year-old emperor Emperor Mutsuhito, traveling from Kyoto to Tokyo at the end of 1868. | Alfred Roussin/Public Domain On 26 November 1868, a splendid procession wound through the massive gates ...