In his cozy workshop behind his D.C. home, contemporary kumiko craftsman David Gootnick, a Craft Show featured artist, uses the raw material of his practice: a five-foot-long, two-inch-thick plank of ...

What are the hallmarks of a resilient, balanced, long-term happiness? Traditional Japanese wisdom offers insights.

Japan’s biggest financial firms are abolishing decades-old practices that kept women off the corporate ladder.

Many of us know that Japan took its Buddhism, its urban design, its flower-viewing rites and several of its art forms from China, often by way of Korea. You feel that influence today everywhere from ...

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps informed volunteers Tuesday that they would exit the program early “due to ... inserted himself directly into trade talks with Japanese officials, a sign ...

“I’ve heard no Japanese pitcher has won it yet, so I’m awfully interested in it,” Yamamoto said in Japanese. “I think that concentrating on each and every game and performing at my best ...

“Exit Wounds” is the third installment of Mr. Godwin’s own private story, as eloquent as the first two in his trilogy of remembrance. It’s not “a conventional memoir,” the author tells us.

Liverpool have had their path cleared to sign a top Brazilian talent as a potential replacement for Trent Alexander-Arnold after the director of his side, Flamengo, confirmed they would not stand ...

Belfast’s “ludicrous” street sign policy that has seen applications for signage in Japanese, Mandarin and Hebrew could lead to the city being “the most confusing in the world”, it has ...