Trader Joe's has been selling reusable bags since 1977, but it's only in recent years that they have become a fashion accessory both at home and in Japan.

The 63-year-old Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, the oldest son of a taxi driver and a homemaker, grew up in a one-room ...

American teachers from a Defense Department school sampled Okinawa delicacies and explored Japanese teaching methods during a ...

An elementary school here with a growing population of foreign students -- now accounting for over 40% of its roll -- has ...