When life gave her lemons, film star Kirin Kiki didn't make lemonade, but wild grass enzyme juice. It's the only thing that has satisfied her taste buds since her advanced-stage cancer caused her to lose her appetite, and even her desire for alcohol has vanished ...

If you ask Naoko Okusa how to dress your best, she will tell you to look inside yourself before you stare into a cluttered closet or at an oversized mirror. Arguably the most influential stylist in Japan, Okusa, who has 136,000 followers on Instagram, offers ...

Like the Japanese proverb "fall seven times and stand up eight," Jun Sena made seven failed attempts to conceive through in vitro fertilization before she turned the odds of having a child in her favor. No, she was not able to get pregnant. But she ...

Juggling work and life as a parent is never easy, but how does a father who keeps irregular hours due to his successful acting career deal with the magnitude of challenges that come with being a single dad? Ryuichi Oura will not lie. He admits ...

Yukiya Terai exudes confidence in all facets of his life — from his sexuality to the flair he brings to the kitchen. The 29-year-old caterer and chef, known for rainbow-colored comfort food that brightens the table, has had his artistic culinary creations featured in just ...

With a high literacy rate and a strong work ethic that embodies the samurai code of conduct, it is easy to assume Japan is well placed in the global race for economic ascendency. But Robert Kiyosaki, an entrepreneur and author of the top-selling personal finance ...

The prefix "anti" is often used before the word "aging" in Japan, as if there are only two choices — youth and beauty, or age and wisdom — and the former is preferred to the latter. But top model Rinka wants a little bit of ...

Rikishi in Japan are coming up big — literally and figuratively — doing little things to promote the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and, though not part of the Olympic program, the ancient national sport of sumo. On Wednesday, 70 wrestlers of sumo's top two divisions, ...

Former world No. 4 Kimiko Date said Wednesday she has yet to give life after sport a serious thought, as she is still going back and forth between strange emptiness and ecstatic relief now that she has retired from competitive tennis. "There's a sentiment of ...

Life may offer an unexpected surprise after an epic letdown, but in the case of first-time space voyager Norishige Kanai, it was an out-of-this-world opportunity. As Japan's youngest astronaut, Kanai, 40, is set to undertake a long-duration mission to the International Space Station when he ...