Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, struggling to stabilize his minority government, says he will seek to maintain ...

Erik Buhrow dreams of retiring in Japan. Until then, he's renting out the akiya, or abandoned home, to other Americans who ...

President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expedite deportations has rekindled trauma ...

Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder and CEO of SoftBank, the Japanese media technology conglomerate, is often cast as a ...

This is to experience the Japanese idiom ‘ichi-go ichi-e’: living - and appreciating - the present moment without distraction. This includes switching off your social media, music and books ...

Inemuri, the Japanese art of napping, allows individuals to take short naps in public or work settings without being seen as unproductive. This practice helps improve alertness and cognitive function.

Asking students to clean their classrooms might seem unusual to some, but in Japan it is an unquestioned part of school life and a practice that embodies an education system that is increasingly ...

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Jonathan Bastian talks with Pico Iyer, travel writer and author of “The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise ... groups of people in the Kansai region of Japan. Her primary focus, and the subject of ...

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner listen as Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump attends an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center, Wednesday ...

Three books won Japan’s Akutagawa Prize in 2024 ... This habit leads to the collapse of her humdrum, everyday life. Naoki Prize judge Asada Jirō described it as “a collection that will ...