“Like a little meditation?” I venture. “Exactly,” he replies, emphatically, validating our shared moment of mindfulness.

Jon Woodhouse, who writes regular arts and entertainment articles for The Maui News, is currently traveling in Japan and ...

Police in Mikawa town, Yamagata Prefecture, have arrested 28-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 90-year-old woman in September. Police said Kazuma Ishikawa, a part-time worker, is accused of ...

In three years, Kano’s Japan Housing Corp. has built in Tokyo ... The cliff dwellers still roll out their gaily colored futons (quilts) at night, and drape them over balcony railings to air ...

Former electrical engineer Bruce Campbell calls a retired Boeing 727 home. Located in a forest near Portland, Oregon, the impressive converted aircraft from the 1960s is one of the coolest fixer-upper ...

The Uchi furniture store on San Pablo Avenue has also closed. Catch up on this and other Berkeley retail and small business news.

A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, YouTube and GYAO! video views and karaoke data, compiled by Billboard Japan.

Japanese knotweed is a fast-growing and strong clump-forming perennial, with tall, dense annual stems. Stem growth is renewed each year from the stout, deeply-penetrating Rhizomes are creeping swollen ...