Mugen Train’ blends Buddhist impermanence, Shinto philosophy and samurai ethics into a lesson on courage and suffering.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Obeyesekere joined Princeton’s faculty in 1980 and transferred to emeritus status in 2000. He chaired the anthropology ...

Music, matriarchs, and modernism are the themes of this month's book recommendations. This April, we're looking at the latest ...

a scholar of Orthodox Christianity and an associate professor of religious studies at Purdue University. Her book, Women in the Orthodox Tradition: Feminism, Theology, and Equality (Notre Dame Univ., ...

Art fellows with The AjA Project explore displacement and silencing in their new exhibit on the history of Japanese American ...

International Booker Prize-winning novels that belong on every serious reader's shelf. Each story leaves a lasting emotional ...

What do you think would happen if we asked people in affluent countries like Japan and America to sell ... whether through your company, your religious organisation, or other activities ...

This comes after the Pentagon chief sent a memo to the Maryland school instructing it to comply with larger anti-” woke” ...

Personal details are boring and worth skipping. Suffice it to say life was changed, with a job transfer and admission to a university after that friend’s suggestion. The book was ‘ Conversation in The ...

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious ... These days, the Miwatari has lost much of its religious significance. Residents in Suwa, a small, sleepy city wrapped ...