In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist and journalist Stephen Harrigan explores the enduring ...

Francesc Miralles opens up about purpose, imperfection, and living mindfully. His take on Ikigai and wabi-sabi will leave you ...

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

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

Japanese work culture can be many things: diplomatic, hierarchical, conformist, machine-like and even suffocating. Globally, ...

Trump’s war on America’s racial history has claimed my book as a casualty — ironically, a best-seller that conservatives ...

Acknowledging it is crucial to a more honest reckoning with the past and a more just moral stance in the present ...

Unable to afford textbooks while growing up on Japan’s northwest coast, Yoko Breckenridge would borrow them from friends and copy each chapter by hand. Breckenridge, who married an American soldier ...

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

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

The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct revealed a lot of new information about the system yesterday, and one of the tidbits you may have noticed is that Japan is getting a Japanese-language only version of ...

True Religion’s distinctive, $400 jeans were everywhere in 2005: in paparazzi shots of early reality stars Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson, lyrics of “My Humps” by the Black Eyed Peas ...