The University of Tokyo and other institutions have returned the remains of overseas indigenous people that had been held for ...

Unlike tennis and other sports, though, the world of haute cuisine doesn’t really have a universally recognized ranking ...

The kimono is more than a historic artefact, one where ideas and methods of production were to remain constant for centuries.

Well-proportioned wooden tubs, called “oke” in Japanese, are built with unparalleled precision, slowly and steadily crafting each one by hand with great care.