You've never actually eaten real wasabi, or at least not very often.

Many elderly Japanese are committing petty crimes in order to get free shelter and food.

Bob the Builder has five fingers in Japan due to the Yakuza.

Home security is becoming a bigger concern.

Yasuke, a sixteenth-century African travels to India and on to Japan where he becomes an accomplished samurai.

Because of its popularity, scientific discoveries have been named after this yellow mouse Pokemon.

The name change was made to flow better with the characters and pronunciation in the Japanese language.

Initially, it was built to connect distant Japanese regions with Tokyo, the capital, to aid economic growth and development.