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Japanese culture is one that is obsessed with cleanliness. This can be seen from the important cu...

Japan Frank Lev

At Omotesando Street

Trendy Harajuku

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

Japan Puspa Malar

Film Review: Hiroshima, Mon Amour

The subject of much comment and controversy, Hiroshima, Mon Amour is the vintage brainchild of Fr...

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

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams

Film Review: Akira Kurosawa's Dreams

Follow Akira Kurosawa on a journey through his dreams, from early childhood, to visions of the ap...

Japan Celeste Heiter

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

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

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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

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

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...

Japan victor wong

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

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Japanese Colonial Architecture

SEOUL, Aug 5, 2005 - Like the British, the Dutch, the Spanish and the French before them, Japanes...

Japan / Singapore / China AFP

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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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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

Nobody Knows

Film Review: Nobody Knows

Mothers guard your hearts for this unthinkably tragic tale of four abandoned children left to fen...

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

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Film Review: The Bridge on the River Kwai

Based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï by Pierre Boulle, The Bridge on the River Kwai de...

Japan / Myanmar / Thailand Celeste Heiter

Encroaching Upon the Floating World: An Interview with Artist Michael Knigin

While scouring the World Wide Web in hopes of purchasing a rare, original Hiroshige woodblock pri...

Japan Celeste Heiter

Kamakura is a very popular tourist destination

Great Buddha Statue of Kamakura, Tokokuin Temple

The Great Buddha Statue of Kamakura was not the main draw for our trip to Kamakura...

Japan Janet McKelpin

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