For a long time Megumi Sasaki felt that something did not quite fit. The feeling settled like a shawl around her shoulders — she tried to shake it off but couldn't. "It wasn't that I disliked Tokyo or college," says Sasaki, recalling her days as a French literature student at Aoyama Gakuin ...
In the Roman amphitheater of Verona, Italy, the elephants and horses in ancient Egyptian regalia marched onto stage to the thunderous chords of Guiseppe Verdi's opera "Aida." The singers filled the balmy night with their voices, soaring over the trumpets and crashing cymbals of ...
A tea master explains the comforts of a three-tatami-room teahouse.
For Takamichi Saeki, the road to becoming a hair stylist and running a salon started out in the art world, working as a gallery assistant.
Translator reveals the strangest request she's ever been asked in her career.
Based in Chicago with her American musician husband and their young daughter, Ayako Kato is an award-winning contemporary dancer, choreographer, curator, and teacher, promoting fūryū in her multidisciplinary collaborations and improvisations with national and international musicians.
For Misaki Morino, Vienna lives up to both its names: The City of Music and The City of Dreams.
Japanese monk Seigaku lives a Zen life with as little money as possible in Berlin.
On a sweltering summer day in Venice, the temperature in Yasuhiko Tsuchida's glass-making atelier feels at least 10 degrees hotter than it is outside. Men roast their faces against groaning furnaces, shirts drenched with sweat, pulling clumps of luminous molten glass from the fire ...
How do you solve a geopolitical problem like Kim Jong Un? Containment? Embargoes? Propaganda? Regime change? Synchronized baseball?
