Traveling to Park County from the suburbs of Tokyo for a two-year stint at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, Haruka ...

From a comet and "cat employees" to Godzilla and realistic police officer dummies, the Mainichi editorial team has selected ...

In the foreground a group of young Japanese men and women (possibly high ... shop which has a display of fish banners (wind socks). A woman (left) wearing traditional dress, including a kimono, obi ...

From embarking on off-grid expeditions to steering fintech firm YouTrip, Caecilia Chu is on one big adventure.

Experience the incredible process of crafting denim tote bags with a touch of kimono style. Watch as skilled artisans blend ...

Disney has just released a new line of merch in Japan in collaboration with Shochiku, one of the country’s oldest movie ...

Third-generation Japanese American artists process the impact of incarceration on their parents' generation and their lives afterward in “Resilience — A Sansei Sense of Legacy" at the Illinois ...

As well as sake, the traditional Japanese brewing processes recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity can be used to make drinks like shōchū and awamori, and the seasoning ...

“I always wear a slipper on the plane,” says Michelle Faucheux, the Los Angeles, California-based founder of travel advisory, ...

And I'm not saying she's an unattractive woman, but she's not beauty, by any stretch of the imagination." [October 2007] "I really understand beauty. And I will tell you, she's not — I do own ...

Rice harvests produce straw, a natural byproduct of the dried grain. Traditionally, the material could be used for a wide variety of objects from tatami mats to food wrappers to carrier bags. Many of ...

“In those days, a Japanese woman playing like Bud Powell was something very new. So all the press, the attention, wasn’t because I was authentic. It was because I was strange.” While no doubt the ...