A new library dedicated to the vivid imagination of novelist Haruki Murakami and an increasingly digitized, almost ...

An international exhibition for a book about Japanese women in the photographic arts has its homecoming in Tokyo.

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TOKYO — As Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi has broken new ground in a country that struggles with gender equality. But she has quickly run up against a tradition that may be ...

For centuries, women entering marriage in Japan have been bound by the Confucian notion of personal sacrifice for the good of the family – and that has extended to their names. Encouraged by a sexual ...

Have you ever looked at a Japanese woman and wondered, how does she look so young? So calm? So effortlessly radiant? The ...

THE TWO young contenders grab at each other’s loincloths. A referee keeps up the shout of “nokotta nokotta”, indicating that the wrestlers are still in the game. Suddenly one lunges forward, sending ...

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