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When Megumi Fushiguro tells Yuji about the impending tournament, he refers to Kenjaku as Noritoshi Kamo, who is historically known for his evil deeds as a jujutsu sorcerer. The reference to Kamo might ...

Social media has turned traditional Japanese matcha into a commercial trend, though its roots lie in Zen Buddhism. A scholar ...

With their sights set on an income-generating investment they could also live in, two Californians set out to buy a ...

Shibui is not about minimalism, luxury, or restraint for the sake of rules—it is a way of understanding why some things feel ...

The Bank of Japan raised its key policy rate to a 30-year high on Friday to help curb inflation, as widely expected, and financial markets took the move in stride. The 0.25 percentage point hike took ...

Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means. It's been an unsettling few days in ...

For Japan, a Chinese attack on Taiwan would constitute an “existential crisis”. With prime minister Sanae Takaichi’s November statement came the sharpest rupture in Sino-Japanese relations in years.