Kisser, a Japanese comfort food restaurant in the style of a kissaten, or casual neighborhood cafe, will open this weekend after two years of planning, construction and pop-ups in local restaurants.

Japan's hot spring culture, currently under consideration by a government council for a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage bid, has ...

Rie McClenny grew up in southwestern Japan with family members who not only loved to cook but, as the owners of a tearoom and cafe in their small seaside city, were pretty darn good at it. The simple, ...

Hwang Keum-ju was an 18 year-old foster-daughter of a wealthy Korean family when she received a draft notice from the Japanese government during its wartime occupation of Korea. She was sent to an ...

Hatsuzakura, a new Japanese cafe in University Heights, is serving comfort foods true to the Kissaten or Japanese tea house style. “People who have been to Kissatens in Japan and have (visited ...

Catholics in South Korea have urged the Japanese government to offer a sincere apology to the comfort women forced into sexual slavery by its imperial army during World War II. The National Catholic ...

Six former "comfort women" joined an international activist meeting in Tokyo Saturday to demand Japan formally atone for sexual slavery in its wartime military brothels, an emotive legacy still ...