International tourism to Japan has exploded in recent years, and while the official figure for 2024 is yet to be released it is now certain to be a new record in excess of the 31.9 million who ...

He’ll be remembered and studied for hundreds of years. He almost single-handedly put modern Japanese literature on the world map. If Murakami doesn’t win the Nobel Prize for Literature before ...

Takamine is a new whiskey made with koji, a mold that’s long been used in Japan for starting fermentation.Credit...Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times Supported by By Clay Risen One afternoon ...

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros is billed as one of the biggest publishing releases since Harry Potter. The festival will run from 31 January to 2 February at venues across Wolverhampton. The Sandman ...

As 2024 nears its end and we look back on the year in entertainment, it was clearly one when Japan-related works loomed large on the global market. It is a diverse group of works. Some were made ...