Shoot fireballs for your health! It’s been said that sports participation in Japanese schools has been on a steady decline in recent years. It would seem that tossing the old…
Through a multidisciplinary approach spanning painting, photography, sculpture, and installation, British artist Hew Locke OBE RA interrogates “the languages of colonial and post-colonial power, and the symbols through which different…
Ghibli Park gives you a chance to experience a traditional Japanese summer festival and to take home multiple Ponyos if you’ve got the right skills. Japan’s summer festivals are somewhat…
Europe is home to some of the world’s most renowned public transit systems, from the Paris Métropolitain to the Berlin U-Bahn to Stockholm Metro. The latter is incidentally home to…
Bullet train blends you won’t get anywhere else. For a lot of Japanese travellers, a ride on the Shinkansen bullet train is synonymous with ice cream, specifically Sujata ice cream.…
From delicately folded paper, Berkeley-based ceramicist Mark Goudy draws inspiration for an ongoing series, Origami. He describes his work as “minimal forms with hidden complexity,” building on a love for…