On January 2, a Japanese airliner and a smaller plane collided at Tokyo Haneda Airport. All 379 people aboard the airliner survived. However, five of the people on the smaller plane, a Bombardier Dash-8,...

On January 1, just past midnight, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake shook most of Japan’s mainland. The epicenter of the earthquake was in the Noto peninsula, in Central Japan. The earthquake caused extensive...

There is a new Emperor in Japan. Emperor Naruhito ascended the throne on April 30, 2019, making him Japan’s 126th Emperor. This is the mark of a new era since Naruthito’s father, Emeritus Akihito,...

Based on Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 historical novel about the persecution of Christians in 17th-century Japan, Silence tells the tale of “an army of two” Portuguese priests embarking on a mission “to...