The Aokigahara Forest of Honshu, Japan (also known interchangeably as the Sea of Trees and more insidiously, the Suicide Forest), is famous for its haunting history and reputation, some based on ...

The best way to learn about the history of any country is from a history book or, at the very least, a history documentary. But if you're too slacker to even sit still for an hour of TV docu-history, ...

In Japan’s premodern era, people began and ended their lives surrounded by screens. Women gave birth between screens that were covered in cranes and tortoises, animals thought to bring good fortune, ...

Her Brush is kin with the growing number of women-only presentations that reveal a fact hiding in plain sight­­: great women artists existed everywhere at all times. The political and socio-historic ...

The music market in Japan—second only to the U.S. in terms of revenue—generates more than two-billion dollars in sales annually. Enthusiasts and collectors of jazz recordings had long ago discovered ...