Japanese women exit the workforce at far higher rates than in other developed countries.

Tipping as cultural practice: why some countries like the U.S. like tipping and others don't.

Revisiting the struggle to keep prostitution from being criminalized in 1950s Japan.

Although Buddhism propelled the popularity of cremation across Asia, its staying power, particularly in Japan, has been for practical reasons.

Questioning why the U.S. dropped the a-bomb on Japan.

Current comparisons of U.S. and Chinese educational systems echo earlier comparisons to Japan.

Otsukimi, falling on the 13th or 15th of October, celebrates the harvest moon.

The awesome destructive power of the beast is widely understood to be a metaphor for nuclear weapons. Is this too facile an idea?