Kamakura, Japan News

A picture of a smiling baby in the womb has been photographed--reportedly for the first time ever--by a research team led by Prof.

After a brief introduction in Japanese learned by heart, Chatr Tharachatr began presenting how his invention, Asumo, could help kill the H1N1 virus in our bodies.

Masami Shioda, 60, holds a large bamboo stick wrapped in leather, facing Vernon Church, a 48-year-old Internet executive wielding a similar bamboo stick.

Moving in together is a natural thing for loving couples to do, but their reasons sometime differ.

There is no massive statue at Sagami Bay of an angel with a sword and a coronet.

In a post global financial crisis world, it may be fitting that the first fund to be launched by a new Japanese asset firm in a year paints itself as an antidote to unfettered Western-style capitalism.

The Great Buddha of Kamakura is a bronze statue of Amida Buddha, which stands on the grounds of Kotokuin Temple.

Following is the full text of U.S. President Barack Obama's speech Saturday at Suntory Hall in Minato Ward, Tokyo, as released by the White House after it was delivered : Boosting ties: U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech Saturday at Suntory Hall in Minato Ward, Tokyo.

US President Barack Obama charmed his Tokyo audience on Saturday with references to green tea ice cream, Japanese traditional hospitality and, of course, the small town that bears his name.

U.S. President Barack Obama expressed Saturday in Tokyo his firm intention to build strong ties with Asia while stressing that the alliance with Japan lies at the center of his policy for the region.

Thank you so much. Arigatou. Thank you very much. Good morning. It is a great honor to be in Tokyo -- the first stop on my first visit to Asia as President of the United States.

Even White House press secretary Robert Gibbs found the time change startling as President Barack Obama 's tour of Asia got under way.

I grew up in Florida, and our year divides itself into seasons of bearable and unbearable.

A regular seminar of the International Institute of the Juche Idea was held in Japan on Oct.

The spread of the new strain of influenza has forced many schools to postpone or call off school trips and sports and culture festivals they had planned for the autumn.

Just a one hour train ride from the center of Tokyo, Japan, Kamakura is an escape back in time.

The far more famous Kamakura Daibutsu may well have more history, character and aesthetic merit, but when it comes to sheer and surely insurmountable size, the Ushiku Daibutsu in Ibaraki Prefecture is patently unparalleled.

Kevin Roop, writing to us from the U.S., is trying to find an old friend of his 85-year-old father, Vernon Roop, a veteran of World War II who after the war was based with his unit, the 5th AAF, at Tachikawa Air Base in Tokyo.

Jun Miyake is a self-proclaimed lover of the exotic. Nowhere is this more evident than in his latest composition, the music for a revival of avant-garde playwright Shuji Terayama's 1977 play, "Chugoku no Fushigina Yakunin" . Exotic tastes: Jun Miyake poses for a photograph by Jean-Paul Goude.

What do university students in an Introduction to Buddhism class say are the top ten misconceptions Americans have about Buddhism?: 1." Buddha" is spelled "Buddah. " Outside the temple of the Daibutsu in Kamakura, Japan , a sign asks visitors to display a respectful attitude in the presence of the Bhudda.