See how the iconic LIFE Noble Notebook is made!
Made on one of only 3 machines left in Japan
Although the wind…
IZUMI SHIKIBU
Bestselling Women Writers in Japan Defy Cliché
Mieko Kawakami, Asako Yuzuki, and other novelists offer fewer cats and cafés, more cultural critique
Perfect Blue
Perfect Blue (Japanese: パーフェクトブルー, Hepburn: Pāfekuto Burū) is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological thriller film directed by Satoshi Kon. It is loosely based on the novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis…
What is Zen Buddhism?
Religion for Breakfast
The Secret History
An investigation of the US’s mass internment of Japanese Americans
tech won’t save us: How China’s Renewable Push Upends Geopolitics
Paris Marx is joined by Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay to discuss the geopolitics behind China’s investments in green tech and electrification, and how it presents the prospect of a…
I Saw the World End
At this instant 80 years ago (8:15am August 6, local time), Little Boy—a 15-kiloton, uranium-fueled atomic bomb—destroyed Hiroshima, killing (per US military estimates) ~70,000 men, women, and children, including 12…
Mornings Without Mii
Mayumi Inaba writes a heartbreaking story for pet lovers