The Australian couple plan to restore the property in the coming years as they transition into retirement. They say that integrating into the local community is a crucial part of being a homeowner in ...

Caitlin Oiye Coon works to save her own and thousands of families' stories. As a teenager, Caitlin Oiye Coon would hear stories from her grandmother Shizuko Kikuchi Oiye about what life was like for ...

My mom is from Portland, Oregon, and my dad is from Nagano prefecture in rural Japan. I'm what's called "hafu" in Japan: children of parents from different cultures. I'm grateful they raised me ...

The cover of "The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration" and one of the editors Frank Abe. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House and Kayla Isomura) The new collection "The Literature of Japanese ...

Satsuki Ina’s parents always urged her to follow rules. They were even more adamant when she was a college student at Berkeley in the 1960s. “Bad things will happen,” Ina remembers them telling her in ...

Japan is the only nation where married couples must use the same surname. Critics say it violates women's rights and, unless the rule is scrapped, all Japanese could be surnamed Sato in 500 years.

People walk through debris after a fire at a shopping area in Wajima in the Noto peninsula, facing the Sea of Japan, northwest of Tokyo, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024, following Monday’s deadly earthquake. A ...

Deborah and Jason Brawn's shared dream was to buy a house in Japan. The couple — from Brisbane, Australia — had long been interested in Japanese culture and its way of life, having visited the country ...