There are a lot of things that make a good anime: good characters, a killer soundtrack, and great settings, to name a few. Most shows are set in a metropolis, with Tokyo being a popular hub. However, ...

As the title suggests, the documentary/fiction hybrid film The Work and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) examines labor and the passage of time. Set over the course of five seasons in a ...

Stations, vacant properties and an old bus have been turned into tourist accommodation, giving rural communities new life With rural Japan experiencing severe depopulation, unstaffed railway stations ...

"A Basketmaker in Rural Japan" 1994 11 minutes Made for the exhibition A Basketmaker in Rural Japan at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Funding from the Smithsonian Institution ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

Kei longs for a normal life in rural Japan But for a transgender man who is jobless in his own hometown getting to normal is one steep climb especially since Erin his Canadian partner longs to move to ...