In Japan, there is a girl's festival (call Hinamatsuri) at 3 March. It is an occasion to pray for a young girl's growth and happiness. Most homes display Hina-dolls for Hinamatsuri and dedicate them ...

A flurry of good morning messages, whipping up favourite meals, and teasing nicknames — a parent’s love for their child may not verbalise itself in so many words but finds form in other languages. In ...

Sporting a white dress and a red headscarf, Japan’s version of a Barbie doll has a new look to battle the stigma of alopecia areata, an intractable immune disease that causes patchy hair loss.

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“As the awareness of gender equality and diversity has heightened, I want customers to have dolls that they think they would like.” According to Kumiko Mase, 73, a researcher of Japanese ...

JOMON (10,000 - 300 B.C.) Prehistoric period of tribal/clan organization. Stone Age hunters and gatherers who make jomon (rope-patterned) pottery inhabit Japan. 660 B.C. Mythological Jimmu ("Divine ...

A panel of the Japanese Justice Ministry has proposed raising the age of consent from 13 to 16. It forms part of a wider overhaul of Japan's laws on sex crimes, after multiple rape acquittals in ...

The number of foreign residents in Japan is booming. The Internal Affairs Ministry says the figure reached 2.49 million in 2018. But a new survey finds that only one in five Japanese people have ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Known as the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan's civilization dates as far back as 30,000 years. Today, the archipelago seamlessly blends its rich history with its ultra-modern present. And while its ...

A Japanese firm whose name was on devices that exploded says it discontinued them a decade ago. Authorities say the boy was attacked outside Shenzhen Japanese School in southern China. How a ...

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