The Japanese started playing rugby in the late 1890s, just a few decades after the foundation of the Rugby Union in England and the formalization of...
It is a somewhat curious experience walking through the streets of the Bikan old merchant district in Kurashiki, the second largest city in Okayama Prefecture....
A recent booklet titled MIYOGAWARI takes on the range of rituals marking the changing of Japan’s era from Heisei to Reiwa. It aims to explain...
There are hundreds of different types of flowering cherry trees planted in Japan. But, as many others have noted, the Somei Yoshino variety is by...
Demanding an end to public use of the war's Japanese name, the Asahi Shimbun justifies itself by citing a postwar Allied Occupation order that expired in...
Spring in modern Japan is about new beginnings, but ancient festivals reveal that sakura was a sign so ominous it could scare people out of their...
On April 11, 2024, Prime Minister of Japan KISHIDA Fumio gave an important address in English to a Joint Meeting of the US Congress, presented below...
Despite the heated controversies, a recent book about one family's journey from Vietnam reminded me of the rich benefits of America's immigration traditions.
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Released in February, the Disney+ series SHOGUN is taking the world by storm. In a video, clip, star Hiroyuki Sanada shares his passion for the new...