Edo Era News Today

A Japanese court rejects a demand by a group of Ainu indigenous people in northern Japan to be recognized as exempt from a ban on commercial salmon fishing in a river, arguing they had inherited this right from their ancestors.

Hokuriku Sanken, or the three prefectures of Hokuriku region, sit in the central northern area of Japan’s mainland facing the Sea of Japan.

Japan is a land of a rich history of folklore, myth, legend, and tales of mysterious creatures. Yet some of these stories

Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Team Ninja have shared a new developer diary for Rise of the Ronin. The new developer diary, a first in a…

Iné Japanese restaurant in Hampstead, London, features contemporary design and reflects edomae traditions; choose from counter omakase and à la carte dining

Hokuriku Sanken, or the three prefectures of Hokuriku region, sit in the central northern area of Japan’s mainland facing the Sea of Japan.

You may have imagined the streets here to be scenes of a movie, with old cobblestone roads and wooden buildings found in the Edo Era.

Popular manga artists have begun a project in central Japan to preserve their work in ink for generations to come, using durable "gampi" paper in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, the birthplace of traditional "washi" handmade paper.

An ongoing collaboration between a distinguished bilingual "rakugo" artist and a University of Cambridge professor is resurrecting popular culture from Japan's Edo period never before seen by contemporary audiences.

Tempura involves battered and fried seafood or vegetables like squid, maitake mushrooms, kabocha pumpkin and more. You have to try this Japanese specialty.