Lauren Rose Kocher never worked full-time in the US, so her understanding of corporate culture was formed almost entirely in ...

Is Japan losing its four seasons? The country loves ’em. Spring, summer, autumn, winter: shiki (四季, four seasons). Ask almost anyone, and it will come up. To locals, each season comes with its own ...

America used to be the archetypal "soft power" country, but sushi, anime and a different way of life place it in the land of ...

Once you’ve been with someone for a while, your interactions can become routine. However, when you’ve been in a relationship for long enough, it’s easy to start taking your partner for granted. It ...

We’ve seen a lot of things in Japan, but one thing we haven’t seen is a mini cinema inside an airport. That all changed on 1 October, though, when the Faminchu Theatre opened inside Okinawa’s Naha ...

In a shuttered school north of Tokyo, office workers assemble cardboard houses in minutes, part of a travel agency's effort to help people better prepare for life in evacuation shelters. A Tokyo-based ...

Life in Japan works differently in everyday situations. The differences show up in routine things like how people behave in public, how services operate, and how shared spaces are treated.