With a pantheon of outdoor sports such as mountain biking, ziplining, hiking and more, the summer season in Hokkaido's Niseko is increasingly switched on.

An Dining chef goes out of his way to source his ingredients personally.

Good books on Zen urge you to put them down and start meditating, but the best ones make you actually want to. Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice, by Kosho Uchiyama, Translated and edited by Tom Wright, Jisho Warner ...

For Sauvage, what began as a pursuit of freedom through jazz became a search for a sound all her own.

By now, even the most casual observer of goings on in Asia will have noted the aggressive geopolitical maneuvering of China, a country news outlets have taken to calling "resurgent." Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push For Global Power, by ...

Though half a world apart in geography, history, language and just about anything else you could name, Cuba and Japan are not entirely without similarities. Both are island countries, albeit in different stages of development, and both are in the throes of full-on tourist drives, ...

On the fourth anniversary of Uenoshita's demolition, we revisit how its last residents left it.

The only living Japanese on a postage stamp, 104-year-old Toko Shinoda reflects on a lifetime devoted to art.

Beginning with 2008's "Yokai Attack!," translators Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt have been on a quest to bring an aspect of Japanese culture that has lurked in the shadows to the world at large. Japandemonium Illustrated: The Yokai Encyclopedias of Toriyama Sekien, Edited by Hiroko ...

The origin of Japan's ruling class extends into the mists of ancient history, far before the country was unified after a period of civil wars and well into the first millennium A.D. Warriors, called bushi, began as the armies of aristocratic factions centered around the ...