Meiji Holdings ended sales of almost all of its glass bottled milk and coffee beverages on Monday, marking the end of a product long intertwined with Japan’s sentō, or bathhouse, culture.

Many of us know that Japan took its Buddhism, its urban design, its flower-viewing rites and several of its art forms from China, often by way of Korea. You feel that influence today everywhere from ...

This supplied photo shows the front side of the commemorative 500 yen coin for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, featuring its official mascot Myaku-Myaku. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on ...

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC), a Japanese banking and financial services conglomerate, along with business systems firm TIS Inc, Ava Labs — the developer of the Avalanche network ...

Japan on Tuesday released a commemorative 500 yen coin for the World Exposition that opens in Osaka this weekend. The coin, featuring the Expo's official mascot Myaku-Myaku on one side and its logo on ...

Located in East Asia, Japan is a top 20 country in the world in terms of population. Japan has the third-largest economy by nominal gross domestic product and the fourth-largest economy by ...

To celebrate 350 years, Mitsukoshi department store’s main Nihonbashi shop in Tokyo will start selling a set of sweet buns powdered with gold dust and “koban” coins made of pure gold on ...

“Every odd job and bounty will provide the coin she needs for her journey ... a towering peak at the edge of Japan's snowy northern region,” the page explains. “In 1603, this area was ...

When the court officials consulted Bolod, he suggested adopting the "Chinese paper money system," replacing coins with paper money, thereby conveniently collecting gold and silver into the state ...

Unlike banknotes or minted coins that have a tangible physical form, cryptocurrencies can only be accessed using computers and other electronic devices. A decentralized currency is a currency not ...