Wagashi, meaning traditional Japanese sweets, are known not just for their delicious taste and meticulous craftsmanship, but also for their gorgeous presentation. It’s also usual to have a range of ...

Summer in Japan is a time for fireworks, and since this summer is shaping up to be a brutal one, our fireworks correspondent Masanuki Sunakoma is coming equally hard with his explosive reviews this ...

The fantastical Japanese goldfish gets a fitting homage in this thick, sumptuous gift book. First imported from China at the beginning of the 16th century, goldfish were kept and bred only by the ...

The Land of the Rising Sun is known to be a world of quirk. Living up to that reputation, a Japanese company has made a submarine camera that helps you take photos of goldfish. Adam Bolton is a ...

YATOMI, Aichi -- Some 230,000 goldfish consisting of about 25 varieties were offered at the first auction of the year in this central Japan city, known as a major breeding area, on Jan. 11. Roughly 40 ...

For the last 10 years, the hottest art ticket in Japan just may have been Hidetomo Kimura’s annual “Art Aquarium” exhibitions, which house thousands of goldfish in 130 gorgeous faceted glass tanks, ...

Armed with fragile paper scoops, the competitors tried to capture as many goldfish as possible in three minutes from 20 tubs containing about 1,000 fish each. At an annual event in Nara Prefecture, ...

Members of the Yanai wide area silver human resources center are seen crafting goldfish-shaped paper lanterns ahead of a local summer festival, in this photo taken in Yanai, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on ...

From the same land that transparent frogs were created in, comes the see-through goldfish. Japanese scientists hope that due to the organs and heart being visible, it’ll eliminate the need to dissect ...

Coal miners used canaries to warn them of noxious gases for generations. Today’s substitute may be the everyday goldfish: it can act as an aquatic canary to warn scientists when something bad is ...

YAMATOKORIYAMA, Nara Prefecture >> Goldfish swim along the street in Yamatokoriyama as if the thoroughfare is one giant aquarium. The street, a third of a mile long, is lined with long-established ...