Most of Yamada’s work — including her latest, The Colors Within, currently in select U.S. theaters — is slice-of-life, a popular anime genre that focuses on the mundane. She has a deep interest in ...

Sasaki burst on the scene as a standout prep pitcher, one who broke the record for fastball velocity by a Japanese high school arm previously held by Shohei Ohtani. MLB teams were interested in ...

From the man-eating Yamata no Orochi to slithering gods, snakes have been a part of Japan’s culture and belief system since ancient times. An expert on Japanese mythology looks at how serpents ...

Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times Supported by By Clay Risen One afternoon in February 1891, a Japanese chemist named Jokichi Takamine arrived by train in Peoria, Ill. He was there at the ...