Japan has been hit by a series of earthquakes, prompting evacuation orders and tsunami warnings. These videos from Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, show the scenes as the city was shaken. A car ...

A passage in “Makura no Soshi” (The Pillow Book) by Sei Shonagon (circa 966-1025) describes the delicate sound of a flute. It goes to this effect: “It is interesting that the distant piping ...

Japan has earmarked the next three years as the last chance to reverse the falling birthrate and halt an irreversible decline in the nation’s population. The government, in calling for urgent ...