WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?

Disability, Kuwana says, is no barrier to achieving goals in life

Life in Berlin inspires textile designer Aiba to branch out into jewelry.

Sachie Nomura's home-cooking skills become the recipe for business success in New Zealand.

A passion for dance led JJ to get into a Californian groove

Vancouver comedian subverts the demure Japanese woman stereotype.

From making fish-based ramen to serving Japanese lunch as breakfast in the U.S., chef Yuji Haraguchi likes to break with convention.

There aren't many female filmmakers in Japan, making even fewer female film editors. Aika Miyake is an exception.

Kaiseki, the multicourse meal that is the height of refinement in Japanese cuisine is the modus operandi of Hitoshi Miyazawa, head chef for Ishizuka in Melbourne, Australia.

Mina Ishihara, 43, first visited Ireland in 1995 when she was a student at Tezukayama Gakuin University in Osaka, her hometown, where she studied English and linguistics. On that trip she visited Galway, a lively cultural city on the west coast of Ireland, partly ...