What are the hallmarks of a resilient, balanced, long-term happiness? Traditional Japanese wisdom offers insights.

What makes a Japanese person Japanese? Is it the blood that runs through their veins? A parent they were born to? The country they grew up in? Is it how they look? How they act? How they speak? Their ...

Military movies frequently depict soldiers communicating with a flurry of hand signals, but what exactly do those signals ...

The country’s objects and ideas, including matcha and emojis, that have had an outsize influence on the world.