Sensitive senior care options for Bay Area Japanese American families are dwindling. A decade ago, there were about 10 ...

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The revival of a midcentury home places the work of the unsung architect Junzo Yoshimura in a new context. By Design takes a ...

From her TriBeCa shop, Saori Kawano has spent decades supplying chefs with knives and housewares, and teaching Americans ...

The Monster Hunter series exploded in popularity globally after years of success in Japan. How did they do it? The incident happened during a public event where the K-pop star hugged 1,000 fans.

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Amazon has a hidden Japanese storefront, and there’s an entire section dedicated to kitchen products. We shopped through ...

Matcha green tea is served to foreign visitors during an event held in front of the mobile tea ceremony room in Yokohama in May 2024. (Photo provided by Chisato Ichikawa) MATSUYAMA -- A tea ...

NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Crafts retailer Joann Inc plans to close all of its stores in bankruptcy, after failing to find a buyer willing to preserve some of the 82-year-old company's 800 U.S ...

‘I believe,’ he continues, ‘that there are forms that can only be born through learning the techniques and understanding the history of Japanese crafts and industrial arts, which have continued for ...