When Hook was a child, he started his days by jumping off the boat that his family lived on and into the ocean. By age 3, he ...

Izakayas are Japanese bars or pubs, popular after work spots to go with friends or coworkers to drink and eat. They’re ...

You don't need to travel to Japan to enjoy delicious Japanese food. Browse this curated list to discover your the perfect ...

Masato Shiota brought his papermaking business back from the brink, paying down debt and buying machinery to automate some ...

The sosaku hanga movement, now explored in an exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, was a showcase for new ...

At first, small children “act wild, like monsters!” says Satou Hiroshi, the genial head teacher. “Our job is to prepare them ...

Small town Japan is dying. It Has been for some time now. Millions of abandoned homes, and youth flocking from the Japanese ...

At the end of World War II, Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire were split up into occupation zones by the allied powers.

The couple was told that the house in Japan had been vacant for 12 years and had served as a sake brewery until the early ...

Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia ...

Medard’s journey began humbly, herding goats in his village. Yet, his innate curiosity and thirst for knowledge propelled him ...