“To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you—around your physical body and your heart”—Michelle YeohIf you’re not already familiar with the term, a geisha is a female Japanese entertainer/hostess...
Japan’s Kabukicho Robot Restaurant resembles an automated gentleman’s club, complete with raunchy robots.
Yukio Mishima was Japan’s most famous novelist, but the world was shocked to see the lengths he would go to put his words into action.
In 2011, Tokyo's Shiodome Nihon TV Studios recorded one of the greatest human feats of all time, when 21 members of the Caless Dance School squeezed into a Mini Cooper.
When Hidesaburo Ueno adopted an Akita whom he named Hachiko, he had no idea the dog would become a worldwide symbol of canine love and loyalty.
When Japan announced its surrender in August 1945, the world turned its attention to the devastating atomic attacks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While these events were undeniably pivotal, they were not the sole reasons behind Japan's decision to end the armed conflict.
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