TOKYO — Jakucho Setouchi, a Buddhist priest and feminist author who wrote frankly about sex

A U.S. Air Force F-35A stealth fighter jet is seen over Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Iwakuni, on Dec.... 7 submitted a protest to the municipal government here against U.S. Air Force training exercises out of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, claiming that the flights are making residents anxious.... According to the Japanese Defense Ministry's Chugoku-Shikoku Defense Bureau in Hiroshima, the fighters will be at the base for several weeks for drills with

The illustration of" Takekawa"(" Bamboo River") I of the national treasure" The Tale of Genji Illustrated Handscrolls" is seen at the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya's Higashi Ward on Nov.... Restoration of 15 volumes of" The Tale of Genji Illustrated Handscrolls" held by the private Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya began in 2012.... The 15 surviving works in the Tokugawa Art Museum collection comprise 16 sections of text and 15 pictures, while the Gotoh Museum pieces consist of four sections of te

Standing on its mountain-fringed beach, there is no hint that the Japanese village of Katoku even exists.... Villages may need new residents to bolster their eroding populations and economies, but sometimes chafe at their presence. When Takaki first visited Katoku in 2010, it seemed like the paradise he had been seeking.... “ I had never seen any place like it, ” he said. That has all changed....