Part of what makes Matsuo Bashōs words feel timeless is their emotional honesty. Many people today experience pressure to ...

Alexis de Tocqueville never wrote about Japan, but his warnings about democracy, centralization, and soft despotism found an ...

A team of 3D scanning engineers has completed a comprehensive digital survey of Odawara Castle, one of Japan's most storied ...

Are you being overwhelmed by the corporate restructuring and rapid tech market changes that are taking over in 2026? When the economic winds blow hard, where you choose to align yourself is important.

Kurosawa Kiyoshi talks his Cannes-premiering jidaigeki 'The Samurai and the Prisoner' on cowardly heroes and the cost of ...

Dr. Jack Hartnell, an honorary associate professor of art history at the University of East Anglia in England and head of ...

The Tenpō Famine of the 1830s was one of the worst in Japanese history, with the poor weather causing escalating rice prices as a major cause. To better understand how historical weather anomalies ...

But it captures the silliness of some of the discourse around Christopher Nolan’s casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy ...

Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ...

Every first timer to Japan should see Tokyo and Kyoto, and for good reason. Kyoto is Japan’s most historically significant ...

Shinjiro Torii (1879-1962), in an undated portrait. In 1899, Shinjiro Torii opened a small shop in Osaka selling imported wines and spirits. He had noticed something that would shape the next century ...