THE Japanese poem is the dewdrop that holds a rainbow in its heart. In order to enjoy it, one must take the rainbow out of the dewdrop and spread it across the firmament. Japanese poems are very short ...

Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko celebrated more than 50 years of life together at Thursday's annual palace poetry reading ceremony, a tradition that goes back more than 1,000 years. They ...

TOKYOTOKYO — A poem about a coastline in northeastern Japan devastated by last year’s disaster is among the winners of this year’s Imperial Palace poetry contest. The poem, by 39-year-old Yueko Sawabe ...

TOKYOTOKYO — A poem about the Japanese coastline devastated by last year’s earthquake and tsunami was among the winners in the annual Imperial Palace poetry contest and was read as part of a solemn ...

TOKYO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Poetry in the loo can cut down on paper use too, says a Japanese group campaigning to save toilet paper as part of the country's battle against global warming. Simply pasting ...

A 14-year-old Japanese girl raises donations for Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei Province and epicenter of outbreak of the novel coronavirus, on Saturday in Tokyo, Japan. She did the same on ...

FUKUOKA -- Winners of a Japan toilet poetry contest announced on Oct. 13 have unveiled humorous and cynical sides of people's daily business in the form of senryu -- a three-line Japanese poem ...