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, ...

NIIMI, Okayama Prefecture--Mio Hashimoto, 15 years old when the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck, was traumatized when she realized nearly how many lives were lost in her neighborhood in the disaster.

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

This was not an easy post to write. It is tough to pick the 29 most beautiful cities in United States – there were so many ...

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

In addition to carrying school supplies, the randoseru has a special safety feature: it can be used to shield heads in the event of an earthquake. Because earthquakes occur frequently in Japan ...

Former students of Okawa Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki ... 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake — are working to turn the site into a community hub. Tetsuya Tadano, 25, head of ...

A year after a natural disaster, the resilient artisans of Japan’s Noto Peninsula are forging ahead—with great help from the ...