Habits once embraced as ordinary now return to us like half-remembered dreams—timeless, deliberate, and oddly grounding.

The Korean alphabet is better than yours. Meet the king who invented it and watch him work his linguistic magic in this chapter in the history of writing. You wake up in another palace, this time in ...

"Ran" remains my favorite Kurosawa film, though, even 40 years after its original theatrical release. I first watched it when I was a kid — it was probably the first foreign-language movie I ever ...

The Tokyo-based company ispace said its lander dropped out of lunar orbit as planned and everything seemed to be going well.

A gory set of manuals, one dating to the 17th century, advised Japanese warriors in the secret ways of seppuku.

On Ikitsuki and other remote sections of Nagasaki prefecture, Hidden Christians still pray to these disguised objects. They ...

Putting together a music program composed entirely of pieces written by Asian composers—many composed in languages other than ...

US tariffs may push China into deflation, devaluation, and a lost decade, impacting global markets and advancing US ...

Now, the Duolingo subreddit is awash with users looking for answers to their questions. And many of them are blaming AI for ...

Reporters from Japan figured out a solution for their problem of Shohei Ohtani not always talking: They started interviewing the fans who caught his home-run balls.

Susan Choi’s new book, Flashlight, considers the evolution of rage.

I get really fixated on things and then I’m dying to put them into novels,’ Choi, whose previous novel, ‘Trust Exercise’ won ...