The country’s top leaders often present trophies to champions of the national sport. But like other women, Prime Minister ...

I’m a reporter and researcher. While I enjoy diving into art from all corners of the globe, I especially enjoy tracking the ...

With its challenge to Japan’s conventional ideals of feminine beauty, the bar, which opened in mid-2020, draws about 100 customers on average each day, the majority of them foreign tourists, and has ...

A version of this scene repeated itself all day in Kyoto last month as 300 wrestlers went at it in bout after bout. This was ...