In 1911, 13-year-old Juhei Kono arrived in Tacoma from Japan. His memoir is the inspiration for "Voyages," a new album from ...

Visitors looking for the "real Japan" may find it on a new long trail two hours from Tokyo that shows off the country's ...

I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and Blue” by Paul Lisicky are wonderful reminders of Joni Mitchell’s ...

Tourism, climate goals, and animal rights concerns are sparking a plant-based renaissance in a country famous for sushi and ...

The recent surge of Chinese travelers into Japan may be creating much-needed ambassadors.

I get misty-eyed at a nostalgic song and as the credits roll on a beautifully shot movie. I cry when I'm happy as much, or ...

The Japanese writer’s short-story collection “No One Knows” shows why he was the master of melancholy.

Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami” at Gagosian’s Mayfair branch in London showcases the Japanese polymathic artist in remix mode as he updates important pieces from his country’s artistic ...

The Riveter,” Jack Wang’s first novel, is steeped in multiple worlds and cultures. From the forests of British Columbia in ...

My very first trip to Japan was anything but ideal. My husband and I landed in Tokyo – on the first leg of our honeymoon – ...

In If Only, the Norwegian novelist distills a story of romance into all its private discomfort and claustrophobia. Its ...