On May 1, 2019, for the first time in 200 years, a Japanese monarch will step down from power. The Japanese government passed a bill in 2017 that enables Emperor Akihito to pass…

March was full of stylish encounters. Spot the Queer Eye crew hanging out with Kiko Mizuhara, our favorite duo Takako Tomii and Davide Fantoni of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Tokyo, and more! Plus, TW's Matthew Hernon interviews Academy Award winner Kazuhiro Tsuji.

Last year’s Sagamihara massacre was Japan’s deadliest mass killing since World War II, and it put the country’s bias against people with disabilities in the spotlight. Matthew Hernon looks at the reasons…

After a year of celebrity deaths, political upheavals, and what seemed to be a general feeling of malaise, most of us won’t shed a tear as we say sayonara to 2016. But…

The Russian police have raided several shrines and houses in Moscow and St. Petersburg believed to be linked to the cultist group Aum Shinrikyo. Forty-four people have been detained across the two…

Our look back at the main sport’s stories from March include controversies in sumo and baseball, badminton, table tennis and curling finals, a victory for the first rookie female jockey in the…