Japan is known as the 'Land of the Rising Sun.' The reason is due to its location, which is to the east of the Asian ...

Everywhere she went in the United States, she saw Stars and Stripes flags. It was surreal to her. She asked an employee of the Japanese consulate general for red and white fabrics and scissors.

Some shouted “banzai” — “long live” — while others waved small paper Japanese flags. “I feel for those who are still greatly suffering,” Naruhito said, referring to the quake in ...

Some shouted banzai — “live long” — while others waved small paper Japanese flags. “I feel for those who are still greatly suffering,” Naruhito said, referring to the quake in Ishikawa Prefecture that ...

TOKYO — Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted throngs of New Year's well-wishers from a balcony window at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Thursday. Some shouted "banzai" — "long live" — ...