to the small village shop. Its shelves were sparsely stocked. The shopkeeper, appearing from her living room, was surprised to see me, but unflustered. “Welcome,” she said in Japanese ...

A small Japanese village, Yoshino, donated land and offered ... taking the shared economy structure to the next level. For the Yoshino House, Hasegawa selected local cedar wood as the main ...

He’d spent years backpacking around the world, and Japanese traveler Daisuke Kajiyama ... Kajiyama was driving around Tamatori, a small village located in the Shizuoka prefecture, between ...

A piece of Japanese history is ... to the institution in 2016. The house belonged to the Yokoi family for generations, as they served as the shōya (village leaders) of a farming community near ...

The Japanese village established in the small hall of the Madison-Square Garden, which will be open to the public to-day, was visited yesterday, in the afternoon and evening, by a large number of ...

A shōya was a village leader, according to Robert Hori, gardens cultural curator and program director for The Huntington. “The Japanese Heritage Shōya House will take the visitor back in time ...