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Parsing a national drink: What we talk about when we talk about sake PREMIUM

About four years ago in this column I introduced the research of social psychologist Chie Kanagawa and her colleagues, who asked Japanese and...

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Noh is probably one of the most difficult traditional arts for many Japanese people to understand. I’ve been covering noh for nearly 3½ years now,...

Musings by The Yomiuri Shimbun Time is not something that can be measured with a clock. A person experiences its passage. Long ago, critic Hideki...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female student in my second year of high school. I’ve begun to really dislike people who kill their individuality...

Musings by The Yomiuri Shimbun A few days after the Ansei Earthquake in 1855, false rumors spread across the city of Edo (present-day Tokyo), such...

Like kabuki, the traditional art of rakugo storytelling developed in the densely populated regions of Edo (present day Tokyo) and Kamigata (...