Donald Trump has vowed to exit the Paris Climate accord, just not yet, leaving US policy in limbo for the next three years.

The world’s top greenhouse gas emitters, China and the United States, have signed an agreement to work together to address climate change issues.

Japan blesses Nicole Johnston with good fortune and a new reverence for vegetables.

Teenage girls are flocking to enter the ‘floating world’ in a return to traditional Japanese culture.

Miehina has barely taken a dozen steps along a Kyoto street before the audio backdrop to her every public move comes to life.

A serial seducer who enchants aristocratic women with poems on scented paper and gifts of luxurious kimono, Genji turns 1 000 this year, his appeal to readers undiminished.…

Ichimame’s life is already an endless blur of parties, visits to the hairdresser, kimono fittings, lessons in traditional dance, music and tea ceremony. Even so, the Japanese…

The Kyoto Protocol, the world’s most far-reaching environmental treaty, took effect on Wednesday at 5am GMT with 34 industrialised countries legally bound to slash pollution…