Japan's decision to relax its mask guidelines this week marks a significant transition for a country where people have universally embraced the face coverings since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This being Japan with its many innovative ways of doing things, a printing company came up with a novel solution. The company, named Nagaya Insatsu, developed a three-layer surgical face mask ...

The easing or even elmination of mask-wearing rules in many overseas countries has raised concerns that foreign tourists may not follow mask-wearing guidelines in Japan. In Japan, the government ...

The clue leads police to Tenkawa Village in Nara, where multiple murders continue. The victims are all associated with a Noh family.

A company employee, whom an Asahi Shimbun reporter interviewed at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo, said she stopped wearing a mask on May 8 when the status of the novel coronavirus was reclassified ...

It marks the third time for a wooden mask from the period to be discovered in Japan. Experts believe the artifact played a key role in important agricultural festivals organized by influential ...

In fact, many people tend to don a pair of sunglasses outside in Europe and North America, but wearing a mask is not as popular as it is in Japan. People look at different parts of the face of the ...

HIROSHIMA--Traditional Japanese Noh performances were given in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome here ahead of its 25th anniversary of UNESCO's registration as a World Heritage site in December.

Dr Kimura is also a researcher at Flinders University and Visiting Professor at Fukuoka Women's University in Japan. Credit ... give a lecture on Japanese Noh and War Art in Cowra as part of ...