With plenty of space to explore, Showa Memorial Park, a former U.S. military base in western Tokyo, can be a wonderful a place to escape from the mundane. I entered through the Sunagawa gate, one of ...

TOKYO — Cherry blossoms began flowering in Tokyo on Tuesday, matching earliest-bloom records from 2020 and 2021, according to a government agency that started keeping track in 1953. And for the first ...

I still vividly remember the fishmonger’s cheerful cry of “what’ll it be today?” echoing in the local shopping arcade whenever my mother and I stepped into his shop. Once we placed our order, he’d ...

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama -- A glittering samba event recently kicked off the Golden Week holiday season at the Seibuen Amusement Park in this city just northwest of Tokyo in a tribute to Japan's Showa era, ...

Marking 80 years since the end of the Pacific War and 40 years since Setagaya’s Peace City Declaration, the Lifestyle Design Center in Sangenjaya’s Carrot Tower invites visitors to reflect on ...

TOKYO -- The former residence of a late House of Peers member in the Japanese capital's Seta area is the only remaining home of a notable figure in the neighborhood and exudes an early Showa-era (1926 ...

Polychaetous annelids from Sagami Bay and Sagami Sea collected by the Emperor Showa of Japan and deposited at the Showa Memorial Institute, National Science Museum, Tokyo. Families Polynoidae and ...