“Haikyo” are abandoned buildings—ruins. Last year, a couple ex-BioShock developers read an account by Gakuranman.com of exploring a haikyo. It inspired their new indie game Gone Home, a game that ...

WAJIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Kohei Kirimoto, an 8th-generation lacquerware artisan, walked through the ruins of his century-old workshop in the Japanese coastal town of Wajima on Thursday, concerned only ...

The eyes of a visiting archaeologist lit up when he was shown the 10 tiny, rusty discs that had sat unnoticed in storage for two and a half years at a dig on a southern Japan island. He had been to ...

Foreign buyers from the U.S., Canada and Australia are increasingly purchasing abandoned homes in Japan, seeing them as an opportunity for homeownership amid surging property prices in their domestic ...

A haul of coins from halfway across the world turned up on an archaeological site in Japan. Exactly how they got there is a fascinating mystery. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes ...

These two books deal with the end of empire in Asia after World War II but from significantly different perspectives. Spector focuses on Japan's defeat, whereas Bayly and Harper concentrate on the ...

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The Japanese seaside town of Rikuzentakata is home to a tiny temple called Kongoji. It's perched on a hillside and is one of the few structures still intact after last month's earthquake and tsunami.