Last year, three friends in their mid-60s started Ruriko Co., not with products or services to sell, but with a mission to preserve and demonstrate the Japanese culture and lifestyle they grew up ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Springtime at Joan K. Mendel Elementary School means JaPANDAsia, an annual celebration of Asian culture at this American airlift hub in western Tokyo. Around 500 ...

A petite Japanese woman, standing at just 1.46 metres tall, has been driving trucks for six years in a bold effort to challenge workplace stereotypes. Known only as Kana, this 27-year-old has been ...

Written by veteran Asahi Shimbun writers, the column provides useful perspectives on and insights into contemporary Japan and its culture.

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When tens of thousands of people fled after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and ensuing Fukushima nuclear accident, their cultural traditions left with them. But more than 10 years ...

The master-apprentice relationship, usually with a man in the former role and a woman in the latter, has been a popular theme in recent Japanese films. The appeal to the target audience is ...

“It was a really great experience for them to know our culture, like Japanese culture, Japanese traditional culture yeah, it was really great experience for us.” Members of Taiko-Ren head back ...