Rintaro Sasaki is a teenage phenomenon who aspires to play Major League Baseball. He is a trailblazer embarking upon an unconventional path for a Japanese ball player.

In Japan, the Indigenous community known as the Ainu has been struggling to assert a 21st century identity after decades of erasure. About 20 years ago, the government officially recognized them as ...

Tourism, climate goals, and animal rights concerns are sparking a plant-based renaissance in a country famous for sushi and ...

Research has shown that human bodily responses and cognitive shifts affect each other in both directions. We feel sorry ...

IN HIGH SCHOOL, Ishiba Shigeru joined the golf club. But he abandoned the sport after entering politics. The elitist hobby ...

What makes a Japanese person Japanese? Is it the blood that runs through their veins? A parent they were born to? The country they grew up in? Is it how they look? How they act? How they speak? Their ...

TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, developed a new AI model called OmniHuman-1 that can turn any photo into a lifelike video ...

The vision “I want people to understand that vegan food isn’t just for a select few. It’s an inclusive eating style. Reaching ...

When I returned to the States from Tokyo, I was surprised to learn that I was “Wasian.” This is partly because that term, a portmanteau […] ...

The Hall of Fame voter who declined to select Ichiro Suzuki remains a mystery. All 321 voters who allowed their ballots to be made public Tuesday by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ...

A woman’s ordinary evening commute turned into an unforgettable experience when she spotted a rare albino deer standing gracefully in the snow near a forest. Overwhelmed by the sight, she recorded the ...