Brian: Last Christmas, I went with my parents to Tokyo. It was the first trip to Japan for all three of us. We stayed in an area called Nihonbashi. Dad and I thought it would be a good idea to go ...

The persistent use of the hand seal in the Japanese business world is one reason commuter traffic remains stubbornly high in major cities — well below the target of an 80% reduction experts ...

TOKYO - Some Japanese office workers are facing a small, but insurmountable hurdle to staying home under the state of emergency declared in parts of the country over the virus: personal signature ...

An exhibition featuring art works and private collections of Chinese calligraphy and paintings from Kobayashi Toan, a Japanese seal carving master, was held at the Tokyo National Museum on October 31.

A wild spotted seal that swam up a Japanese river and has lived there since early this month is now a Japanese media star, with children and adults alike flocking to see it as a welcome ...

A reliance on paper filing systems in parts of Japan's business world is forcing employees to go into work to put their unique seal on documents. To do this they use tiny traditional stamps known ...