July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...

Move aside, matcha! A new Japanese herbal tea is the next viral beverage. Hojicha is a roasted green tea with a warm, nutty ...

When you first see a Japanese Bobtail, it’s hard not to smile. There’s something about that iconic little pom-pom tail—like ...

The courtyard of Dogo Onsen Annex Asuka-no-Yu hot spring bathhouse in this west Japan city is adorned with decorations for ...

Are you trendy or traditional when it comes to tattoos. Wooster artists see much of both - flowers and butterflies to lyrics ...

I saw an interesting scene in “Little Women” (2022), a South Korean serial TV drama, showing a woman released from a ...

The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.

These days, everyone in Tosa's Olde Hillcrest neighborhood knows the house on 74th and Hillcrest as the Goose House. But ...

Great for poetry lovers, Jessica Urlichs’ deeply personal and vulnerably honest collection of poems explores the ...

Hazel and Jewel are local favourites in the Tofield Canada Day parade. “Jewel loves the parade. She just lives for them,” ...

Designed by Mayumi Miyawaki and hidden in the leafy Japanese countryside, this unusual summer house is an intriguing example of 1970s Japanese architecture. A few years ago, it was purchased by a ...