There is a dollmaker shop in Tokyo’s Naka Okachimachi neighborhood specializing in dolls that serve as charms for the good health of young boys and...
From as early as page one, the reader can see that Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter is a genuine attempt by its French...
Hi! I am Yoshiaki Wada, 48, a member of the House of Representatives of Japan, elected from Hokkaido. Moreover, I am a big fan of...
It does not get much better than regular deliveries of small-batch Japanese food. I should know. On the 18-hour-plus haul across the Pacific Ocean from...
Except for the uninitiated, most everyone in Japan will know that daruma is normally a papier maché good luck doll, often about the size of...
Japanese Princess Toshinomiya Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, turned 18 on December 1. In April, Princess Aiko entered...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is waging a battle to influence and control the narrative over history in Asia through propaganda and “thought management” (sixiang...
The efforts of China and members of ASEAN to draw up a “code of conduct” for the South China Sea are drawing increasing attention....
We like to think that fans of music or movies or video games are pretty much the same all over the world, but, in reality,...
Dried fruit. What could possibly be so special about it? It helps to know that before the Portuguese introduced sugar to the Japanese in...
Recently I had a talk with former Seoul University professor of economics Lee Yong Hoon, who authored the book Anti-Japan Tribalism. The book became a...
“If we don’t do this work, we can’t help Afghanistan.” As recent as last October, Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura thus explained in an NHK...