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The word samurai comes from the Japanese verb ‘to serve’. This exhibition, bringing together 280 exhibits, traces the evolution of the samurai image and myths....
On the bus ride down the east coast of the South Island, the jagged shape of the Alps retreated into the distance on their southwesterly...
They shove off together barefoot with no plan, a couple fearless Huck Finns. New love is always built on the kind of trust you put...
Images of pavilions, kimonos and bonsai had captured my attention since my parents returned from a trip to Japan when I was ten, dumping brochures...
Half my life ago, in September 1995, I spent a long weekend on Ulleung Island, a remote island of about 12,000 people in South Korea,...
When word got out about the sea cows, from a marooned naturalist who’d encountered them by accident, a thirty-year countdown clock would start. That period...
Food was such a central part of my time in Japan—in every country, for that matter. It was a point of exploration and wonder, of...
Down on the waterfront of the Chuo Ward in Kobe, Japan, sits a large glass box. It measures about 60 metres on each side. Inside...