Okinawa marked the day when one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island ended 80 years ago.

Japan and South Korea are marking the 60th anniversary of the normalization of their diplomatic relations Sunday. The two ...

The inclusion of rice water in skin and hair care products has risen from the dead like anything in the past years. This ...

Another record was shattered last month when it comes to tourism. Not in Hawaiʻi, but in Japan. HPR's Bill Dorman has morein ...

Archaeologists found the gold-plated artifact on a sacred island of Japan almost 70 years ago but only recently took a closer ...

In “Kuleana” by Sara Kehaulani Goo, the story of one family’s land in Hawaii opens up to something much bigger.

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At this moment in time, I have spent well over a hundred hours exploring Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ubisoft’s gorgeous virtual imagining of feudal Japan. Thousands of samurai have fallen beneath my ...

One of the easiest ways to get a true sampling of the whole country is by booking a two-week cruise, which means you unpack ...

Before we’re old enough to even see over the dashboard, we learn that green means go and red means stop. This internationally recognized traffic light color system is standard in most of the world.