There is no more intimate way to understand Tokyo's unique blend of past and present than shedding your clothes and engaging in "naked friendship" in this Edo-era insitution. There are few cities ...

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For a century, Japan’s public broadcaster has led the way when it comes to media innovation, delivering both cutting-edge technology and inspiring cultural programming. Brendan Christie does a deep ...

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NO LONGER HUMAN (177 pp.)—Osamu Dazai—New Directions ($3.50). One day in 1948, aged 38, Japanese Novelist Osamu Dazai committed suicide by jumping into Tokyo’s Tamagawa Reservoir. It was Dazai’s fifth ...

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In the 62 years that Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado has been around, the Japanese had never once performed it. Obviously Pish-Tush’s lines ridiculed the Emperor: Our great Mikado, virtuous man, When ...

There is a particular kind of evening when nothing harsh will do. The news is too loud, the day has taken too much, and what you want is not a thriller or a tragedy but a book that feels like a warm ...