I recently made a video about what a typical Tokyo neighborhood is like and needed a few Japanese related clip art to illustrate what I was talking about. Even more surprising was that everything is ...

This year for the first time ever, around 180 geishas will take part in the annual 100-year-old Azuma Odori festival.

Rock and roll experimentalist operation The Waterboys—brainchild of Scottish multi-instrumentalist and sole consistent member Mike Scott—have outdone themselves with the beautifully bizarre Life, ...

Waiting for us at the front of a ground floor apartment is Hisayoshi Joto of the Japan Association of Memento Organization (JAMO), one of thousands of private entities that provides professional ...

The artist Gertrude Abercrombie is not someone whose name I knew until very recently. But she’s definitely a name to know now. Born in 1909 in Austin, Texas and dying in 1977 in Chicago ...

Living in Japan as an American is a 24-hour immersive learning experience. I returned to the US for my career but feel like life in Japan is probably better. Having grown up and lived in the US my ...

A funeral home in Japan introduced a ‘coffin cafe’ where visitors reflected on life and death by lying in uniquely designed coffins. In an innovative twist on funeral traditions, a 120-year ...

I've been placing a lot of hope in Life and Death being good, which makes me all the more relieved that I've been having a cracking time with it. As a certified Spooky Gal, the new Create-A-Sim ...

Camera in hand, she captured the bloody reality of life under the oppressive rule of ... But they’re overpowered by the endless photos of death on display. Battaglia was first on the scene ...

On Thursday morning Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa confirmed the death of the child, adding that the government was asking China to provide details of what happened and do its utmost to ...

He brought Karp on board to capture life on the road ... Alex Prager speaks to Wallpaper* about her new body of work, 'Western Mechanics', which opened at Lehmann Maupin in Seoul BLUM marks 30 years ...