A Futuristic Place to Rest: Q&A with Noriko Hayashi A photographer documents Japan's new breed of high-tech vertical cemeteries. Read More
Japan’s 105-Hour Workweek Lawyers at Tokyo’s top firms are at the extreme end of a culture of torturous working hours
The Second Most Famous Thing to Happen to Hiroshima On his deep travels through Japan’s food culture, Matt Goulding meets the improbable Guatemalan master of okonomiyaki
The Lonely End In aging Japan, thousands die alone and unnoticed every year. Toru Koremura is there to clean up what they leave behind.
Off Base Inside the complicated communities surrounding Okinawa’s controversial U.S. military facilities.
The Unwelcome Villager Growing up in rural China, where anti-Japanese sentiment raged, Karoline Kan developed an unlikely friendship.
A Free Dive in Japan Photographer Michael Magers spends an afternoon diving for urchin with the incredible women divers—many of them in the 60s and older—of Mie Prefecture.
A Faded Hope for Peace As Hiroshima remembers its dead, Tokyo envisions new ways to play the shellgame that is modern warmaking.