INUYAMA, Aichi -- This central Japan city has appointed two new staff members to serve as "usho," or cormorant fishers -- its ...

“Have you seen Mr. Orange Farmer?” asked my neighbor, in Japanese. She was standing at my front door, huddled under a small umbrella in the rain on a Wednesday afternoon. I was in the middle of eating ...

UJI, Kyoto Prefecture--When masters call out to a flock of Japanese cormorants, the birds return to the bank of a man-made pond, their throats bulging with fish. The scene resembles the traditional ...

At midnight on Sunday morning, Japan’s new ambassador to Beijing, Uichiro Niwa, was unceremoniously summoned to meet a leading Chinese Communist Party official, State Councillor Dai Bingguo.

SHANGHAI—Chinese boats are catching fish in what Beijing calls “Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water” for distribution in China, while the same marine products caught in the same area by Japanese ...

It is still morning when Kinzaburo Shiga, 77, returns to Onahama port after catching a trawler full of fish off Japan’s eastern coast. But the third-generation fisherman won’t head straight to market.