A book written by the then teenage author Naoki Higashida 15 years ago has appeared in a new form in Japan this spring, as a film adaptation by a British director. Now that it has been read in many pa...

Now is the time of year when you feel like enjoying a steaming dish. And, according to Ryohei Hayashi, owner of the Japanese restaurant Tenoshima in Minato Ward, Tokyo, salted pork oden stew is an id...

They’re baaaah-ck. Lamb and mutton were big in Japan in the 1960s, and again in the mid-2000s. Now Japan is having a third sheep meat boom. Thanks to advances in storage technology, the off-puttin...

Japan may be the home of sumo, but when Tokyo-based photographer Yulia Skogoreva began photographing wrestlers practicing the traditional sport, she was in Moscow. And the wrestlers were women. Sk...