Icebreakers are corny, corporate get-to-know-you exercises. But there’s something thrilling in dispensing with small talk.

From Manila to Bangkok, Volkan Ibil, director of bar and resident smuggler of The Black Room at Shangri-La The Fort, Manila, ...

A maki-e jigsaw puzzle, made by a female artisan who died in the Noto Peninsula Earthquake in January last year, has been ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

A part-time farmer here has sage advice for people stuck in sticky situations where panic must be avoided: Think like a ninja ...

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum traces the career of one of Japan’s most compelling ...

Shashi Tharoor has jumped on the viral Ghibli-style image trend sweeping social media. Sharing AI-generated artwork of ...

Japan's House of Councillors approves legislation to set new rules designed to prevent candidates from using inappropriate tactics on election posters, in Tokyo on March 26, 2025. (Kyodo ...

A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, destroying buildings, bridges and a monastery.

Japan's parliament on Wednesday passed a bill calling for decency in election campaign posters. The bill to revise the public offices election law was approved by a majority vote at a plenary ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...