Disney is hosting a Hollywood premiere of “Snow White” on March 15, but the studio won’t be rolling out a robust red carpet like it usually does. The afternoon festivities will include a pre-party and ...

Almost weekly Momo Nomura makes time to visit Shinto shrines. She performs the prescribed rituals — cleansing her hands, ringing a bell, bowing and clapping. But her main purpose is getting a ...

For half a century, Japan and China have enjoyed normalized ties -- but not always friendly ones. Japan's post office has marked the anniversary of each passing decade with the release of a ...

Japan Post Co. announced it will release of a set of commemorative stamps featuring Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani after he was named the MLB National League’s Most Valuable Player ...

When we were in Japan we wanted to do a lot of stamp collecting. Two of the layered stamps we collected were from two botanical gardens, one garden was the Kyoto Botanical Garden and the other was ...

For hundreds of years, Japanese people have used name stamps, known as hanko, to sign their name. People use hanko in everyday situations, such as receiving a parcel, and in formal contexts, such ...

The Japanese government recently launched an initiative it hopes will encourage foreign tourists to venture off the beaten path to the country's national parks by offering collectible stamps ...

Did you know that in Japan, it's a common tradition to send new year’s greeting cards to friends and family? Known as "nengajyo" or "nengajo", the practice dates as far back as the Heian-era ...