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Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On: An Interview With Japan Shakespearean Actor Dwayne Lawler

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. -Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII To wha...

Japan Celeste Heiter

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Charles Baker's Drunken Oriental Junket

An NPR interviewer once asked writer David Sedaris why he had left New York and moved to Paris. H...

Japan / Indonesia / Thailand Kenneth Champeon

Koya-San, Japan's Holy Mountain

Mist shrouds the surrounding hills. The wind is cold and biting. Yet an extraordinary energy perv...

Japan Graham Simmons

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Tokyo's Golden-gai bar district

Taking a walk through Tokyo's Golden-gai bar district is like stepping back in time to early post...

Japan AFP/Hiroshi Hiyama

The good ship De Liefde, in Huis ten Bosch Harbour. Huis ten Bosch, Kyushu, Japan

Going Dutch At Huis Ten Bosch

Yoshikuni Komichika is no ordinary tycoon. Not far from the southern Japanese gateway off Fukuoka...

Japan Graham Simmons

Teriyaki Salmon Katsu

Recipe: Teriyaki Salmon Katsu

This recipe is a variation of a Japanese classic: Tonkatsu. But instead of pork cutlets, salmon f...

Japan Celeste Heiter

Me at Ishida Mansen Koujo, Kyoto learning yuzen dye painting on silk

Yuzen Dyeing at Ishida Mansen Koujo, Kyoto

Have you ever had a dream of designing your own kimono? This winter, I realized this dream and e...

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Ichimame. Apprentice geisha.

Correspondent Daniel Rook meets trainee geisha Ichimame whose Internet blog is giving a rare insi...

Japan AFP/Daniel Rook

A view from Kurama Temple

Happy Birthday Buddha

Monday, May 7th was an amazing day for me. It was Buddha's birthday, and it started out in an ama...

Japan Frank Lev

Court Dance, inside Spring Room of Tales of Genji Museum

Experience a Thousand Year of History at Uji

Reserve a whole day for a relaxed strode through the historical sites of Uji, the countryside of ...

Japan victor wong

In Japan, children are treated with the utmost care and attention. The literacy rate in Japan ranks among the world's highest, and the infant mortality rate is among the lowest. Despite its population density and astronomical cost of living, Japan provides excellent 'quality of life' for its children.

A Child's Life - Japan

A story told with photos.

Japan Robert George

The Tokyo district of Rygoku is home of one of Japan's most famous Sumo wrestling facilities. Sumo wrestlers train very strenuously for their six annual basho tournaments, and must consume up to 10,000 calories a day to achieve and maintain their enormous stature. When they're not in training however, they can be seen strolling the city sidewalks wearing blue and white cotton robes called yukata.

A story told with photos.

Japan Robert George

At Omotesando Street

Trendy Harajuku

Harajuku refers to the area around Tokyo 's Harajuku Station, one station north of Shibuya...

Japan Puspa Malar

Esprit de Corps: An Interview with Percussionist Ralph Hardimon

An ancient Chinese proverb says, "A wise man does not need elaborate explanations; the good drum ...

Japan Celeste Heiter

Sanyo employee Rie Uchiyama puts on her forehead a mobile phone equipped with bone conduction 'Sonic Speaker' which transmit sounds with vibrations via the skull instead of using the eardrum.

Japan's new bone phone

TOKYO, Jan 21, 2004 - Japanese telecom carriers, pioneers of Internet-capable and picture-snappin...

Japan AFP/Miwa Suzuki

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Japan: The Herd Mentality

Sephora, the French cosmetic store, was giving a fabulous pre-Christmas sale. Half of Tokyo's fas...

Japan Nabanita Dutt

Salmon Skin Temaki

Recipe: Salmon Skin Temaki (Hand Rolls)

This tasty roll sushi is the perfect way to make use of that leftover salmon skin. Who knew that...

Japan Celeste Heiter

Seventy-eight-year-old fortune-teller Terutsugu Eguma attends to a customer on the street of Ginza shopping district of Tokyo.

The fortune-tellers of Tokyo

* * * Every night when the offices close and the shops pull down their shutters, the fortune-tell...

Japan AFP/Niels Planel

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World War II shipwrecks turning into Pacific environmental threat

From the violent shores of Guadalcanal to a lonely Micronesian atoll, villagers and fishermen ali...

Japan AFP/Michael Field

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Japan's pursuit of cute is a $30 billion industry

The licenced character industry, including copyrights and merchandising, in Japan is worth more t...

Japan AFP/Miwa Suzuki

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