Intense. Overwhelming. Steeped in history. Surreal. Kyara, Rakoku, Manaban, Manaka, Sumotara, Sasora… The names echoed as I ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we ...

The Pomera D250 is coming to the US with an updated keyboard and an English language dictionary for spell checking.

At a big-hearted retreat surrounded by nature, Zen rituals fused with mindfulness practices teach Kate Crockett to be more ...

Community-driven IP platform "Xross Road" and advanced AI technology provider "Allora Network" have formed a strategic ...

A Japanese janitor spent almost a decade drawing a maze, which he kept hidden for 30 years, until one day it became a global ...

In Japanese companies like Toyota and Panasonic ... Wharton School whose research examines consumer motivation and judgment ...

Though undocumented immigrants make up just 5 percent of the labor pool, they make up 16 percent of food supply chain workers, from fruit pickers to slaughterhouse workers to ...

Today, gourmet tinned seafood is inescapable. In my Los Angeles neighborhood, it’s everywhere — not just in markets but by the checkout at the stationery store next door and stacked between candles ...

Assassin's Creed Shadows will immerse players in 16th century Japan. The country is heading towards a brutal path to unification, where unrest grows as new coalitions appear and corruptive foreign ...

Railway stations, for example, have a lot of stairs, but not always escalators. There are also – compared to Australia at least – very few playgrounds in Japanese cities. And there are many ...

Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the ...