But it was during the pandemic's forced stillness, when the borders shut for three years, that I began venturing deeper into ...

Trees have long occupied a sacred place in Japanese culture. In the fast pace of the 21st century, however, they're ...

From fascinating woodblock prints and beautiful landscape paintings to eye-catching sculptures, Japanese artists have created ...

I am smitten with Tokyo's eclectic mix of modern cosmopolitanism and old world Japan,' confesses Dinesh Raheja.

In feudal Japan, the Onna-Bugeisha were fierce female warriors who defied gender norms to fight alongside samurai. Trained in ...

Walk Japan’s five-day Nakasendo Way: The Kiso Road walk costs 256,000 yen (about $2642) a person twin share, and includes all ...

Japan was isolated from the outside world due to years of internal conflict and fear of colonization by European powers. When ...

For imperial loyalists of the late Edo Period, the experiences of Emperor Go-Daigo from five centuries past were an ...

Jin Minakata is a surgeon in present-day Tokyo. In a few minutes, he finds himself surrounded in a wooded area by “samurai” ...

The liberal democracies of Northeast Asia – Japan, South Korea and Taiwan – have survived and even thrived in a purgatorial equilibrium where their fate is dependent on: an America in Asia but not of ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

I was really interested in this transition from the Tokugawa to the Meiji period ... before Sapporo, specifically looking at the movement of the salmon along local rivers. According to Thornton, the ...