“Conscience is the only voice that protects the life of an innocent man,” he wrote in a journal entry in 1981, when he was ...

Iwao Hakamada spent an un­precedented five decades awaiting execution. Each day he woke up unsure whether it would be his last.

Western hipsters, always alert to high-end Japanese design, started to import notebooks from ... At the same time, the Moleskine became a potent status symbol. Tech CEOs toted them, as did the ...

Gagosian ’s Grosvenor Hill gallery in London will present ‘Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami ’, a new exhibition ...

Karatsu has been a center of pottery production for hundreds of years. Takachiho Takachiho Gorge, the area’s most famous attraction, was formed by rapidly cooling lava flows. Nagasaki City During ...