I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

The highspeed bullet train takes center stage in Shinji Higuchi’s new film, “Bullet Train Explosion,” premiering on Netflix ...

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“It’s so characteristically Japanese,” Higuchi says. “To complete your work, even if it means sacrificing your personal life, is like a samurai spirit living within all Japanese.” ...

For more than a millennium, Japanese people ... blossom viewing parties. For samurai during the Kamakura period (1185-1333), sakura became a unifying military symbol for the warriors to fall ...

“To complete your work, even if it means sacrificing your personal life, is like a samurai spirit living ... The bullet trains have long been a symbol of Japan’s blossoming as a modern economy ...

Striving to restore their original appearances, many feudal-era castles around Japan are replacing their ... in 1868 that brought an end to the samurai age. After World War II, many of those ...