New summer reading from Duke authors includes timely books on race, history and political polarization, useful books on finance, health and mentorship and good reads of poetry and fiction. Plus: for ...

Weekly arrival bookings for late June to early July from the Asian financial hub have nosedived by as much as 83%. Holiday bookings to Japan from key Asian markets have plunged ahead of the busy ...

Summer is one of the busiest travel times of the year, but some people who have upcoming itineraries in Japan may be rethinking their plans. The reason: a Japanese comic book, or manga ...

Japan is growing increasingly exasperated with foreign social media influencers who stage disruptive stunts and brazenly flout local norms, as calls grow louder for tougher action to be taken ...

On a clear, sunny day in July, Yuval Zohar boarded a ferry at Kagoshima port, on Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu, and headed to the tiny island of Iojima (not to be confused with Iwo Jima ...

Music, like everything else, has been stratified and separated by social hierarchy. So the location and the audience were new to the speaker. As the conference curator, I felt such aesthetic ...

Conceived as a partnership between the government of Japan and the World Bank, the JSDF was initially created to alleviate the social and economic distress caused by the East Asian financial crisis in ...

Three books won Japan’s Akutagawa Prize in 2024. This prestigious prize is awarded to “new” writers of literature, who may have published works, but are not considered established.

(Mainichi/Motoko Hamada) Japan's annual "book week" period is underway, running for two weeks until Nov. 9. We hope to take this opportunity to reflect on the richness that books can bring to our ...

This is where Whiting's book, "Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies: The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan," comes in. Even in a tome of wide scope at nearly 400 pages, there are bound to be ...

While having a cat in the office is no longer a novelty, hosting nearly a dozen certainly is. After adopting its first cat, Futaba, from a sushi restaurant in 2004, Qnote, a Japanese tech company ...