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Film Review: The Last Life in the Universe

Is it possible for a film to be, at once, existential, fatalistic and nihilistic without being a ...

Japan Celeste Heiter

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Japanese 'cosplay' draws huge following in Taiwan

Taiwanese "cosers" follow a fashion that aims to combine costume and roleplay based on characteri...

Japan / Taiwan AFP/Amber Wang

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Japan's Cat Island

Tashiro, is a small (3.14-square-kilometre, 7.9-square-mile) island known as Cat Island, 20 kilom...

Japan AFP/Miwa Suzuki

A Japanese pancake artist at work

Japanese Pancakes

There are many good reasons to spend time in Hiroshima. The excellent food is definitely one of t...

Japan MaryLou Driedger

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Ten Study Abroad Programs in Japan

A number of variables shape a student's study abroad experience in Japan: whether you live with a...

Japan Dawn Stanton

Cinequest 2016 - Night Song

Love is in the Air at Cinequest 2016

In its 26th year, the Cinequest Film Festival, held annually in San Jose, Calif., once again has ...

Japan / China / India Celeste Heiter

Kinkakuji, or The Golden Pavilion, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most exquisite temples and gardens in Japan

The Gardens of Kyoto

Japanese gardening is more than just an art or the careful arrangment of plants and rocks around ...

Japan John Lander

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Japan's Myanmar-born designer Zarny Shibuya

Japan accepts few immigrants and struggles to integrate long-term foreign residents. But Myanmar-...

Japan / Myanmar AFP/Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura

Fans release balloons at a baseball game in Osaka.

Take Me Out To The Ball Game- Osaka Style

Japan is a country that is passionate about baseball.

Japan MaryLou Driedger

Dead Man's Shoes

It all started because well, I'm what some people would call thrifty and what most would call che...

Japan Frank Lev

Perhaps the most anticipated and beloved celebration in Japan is the season known as Ohanami. The word translates as flower watching, and depending upon the weather in mid-spring, sometime during the month of April, the entire nation of Japan bursts into bloom with the ubiquitous sakura, the flowering cherry tree. The sakura create a frosty-pink canopy over city parks and country hillsides alike, and the people of Japan emerge after the long winter to rejoice in this ephemeral season. Beneath a canopy of blossoms, street vendors offer an array of traditional foods, including yakitori, skewers of savory grilled chicken.

The Taste of Japan

A story told with photos.

Japan Robert George

A bowl of ramen is a self-contained universe.

Film Review: The Ramen Girl

Ramen is the main dish in this buoyant homage to Juzo Itami's epicurean classic Tampopo.

Japan Celeste Heiter

Torii gate, on Aoshima Island.Aoshima, Kyushu, Japan

Cruising Kyushu

It's Japan's southernmost main island, the "Hawaii" of the country. Cruising Kyushu takes you way...

Japan Graham Simmons

Edward Espe Brown in How to Cook Your Life

Film Review: How to Cook Your Life

With food as both context and metaphor, documentary filmmaker Doris Dorrie focuses her lens on Ze...

Japan / China Celeste Heiter

Me inside the main glasshouse of Koishikawa Botanical Gardens

Koishikawa Botanical Gardens

In the heart of busy Tokyo, there, Koishikawa Botanical Garden is the perfect place to get away f...

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Snow Falling on Cedars

Film Review: Snow Falling on Cedars

A land dispute fueled by racial prejudice lies at the heart of this post-World War II drama. When...

Japan Celeste Heiter

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Getting Settled in a Brave New World

In the best of all possible worlds, when you arrive in Japan, you'll be met at the airport by sev...

Japan Celeste Heiter

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The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Located within Ueno Park, it displays Matsukata's French collection that survived the second worl...

Japan Stefan Chiarantano

Matsuri! Japanese Festival Arts

Late one summer afternoon, hearing laughter rising from the busy Tokyo sidewalk below my hotel, I...

Japan Celeste Heiter

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Japanese people are very modest. This modesty affects the way they use language. Even if someone ...

Japan Frank Lev

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