Students practice smiling at a smile training course at Sokei Art School in Tokyo, Japan, May 30, 2023. (credit: REUTERS/KIM KYUNG-HOON) Even before the pandemic, donning a mask in Japan was ...

Japan's government will drop its recommendation to wear masks indoors and downgrade its ... more than a dozen Tokyo art school students held mirrors to their faces, stretching the sides of their ...

Industrial zone turned a centre for art and culture, Kitakagaya ranks right at the top of any list of Osaka’s most creative neighbourhoods. Smack in the middle of the action is MASK, a 1,000 ...

Cat-spotting is just one playful way to explore the craft culture of one of Japan’s top woodworking towns, which has been chiselling the material since the 1700s. Surrounded by mountains in central ...

Japan's reflexive fealty to masks and its entrenched reluctance on ... They were state of the art. Until Apple came along, then Samsung. Japan's cellphone makers and their technology were soon ...