Last week, I walked around my neighborhood looking to photograph other people who were still working amid the pandemic. I spotted a U.S. Postal Service carrier almost half a block away and waved to ...

TOKYO — What do COVID-19 masks and electric vehicles have in common? In Japan, maybe more than meets the eye. Both are sad symbols of the country's resistance to change. Long after the rest of the ...

Doctors are still arguing whether face masks protect us from Covid but we know one thing for sure — we are not going to get rid of them easily. In Japan, where people used them even before the ...

In taking on the male-dominated theatrical craft, contemporary women carvers are changing the face of a centuries-old tradition. The artist Shuko Nakamura at her home in Tokyo, wearing her “Migawari ...