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Aljazeera: Japan's Newest and Largest Mosque Opens its Doors

The Ahmadi Muslim community in Japan hopes its new mosque will promote intercultural understanding and dialogue by Michael Penn ...

Some Westerners, when faced with Oriental creativity, have a tendency to gush a bit. Instead of taking a calm, rational, inquisitive v...

The world's most destructive earthquake. An examination of Japan’s world-beaters yields a “superlative” understanding of the coun...

Cockatoo, 1771 The best time to see Jakuchu was back in 2000 or 2006, when there were two big exhibitions that aimed to re-evaluate th...

Making movies is great if you want the fame and excitement, but for real artistic fulfillment there’s nothing like becoming an actual p...

Isaac Asimov in his classic Science Fiction story, I, Robot , created the 3 rules of robotics, the most important being: “A robot may n...

What Lies Behind Our Love of Clothes There’s something counter-intuitive about photographic artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. While most a...

Click to enlarge In Japan, thanks to monoculturalism, high social trust, and Confucian morality, it is possible to have "mujin&qu...

The House of Death (ca. 1945-46) One of the most astounding and, indeed, slightly unnerving pictures in the collection of the Museum o...

Because Japanese cities are overwhelmingly built from wood, they are extremely susceptible to fire, so every spring there is a fire pr...