Japan wins the world baseball championship of the whole wide world, so take that, Chicago. Plus: Alfonso Soriano, refusenik.

Your new favorite cake is even easier than a box mix

This thrilling sea adventure follows a ragtag activist group's highly illegal campaign against Japanese whalers

Traveling in Egypt decades ago, the author and her ailing companion met a young boy wielding panacea

I have a hate/hate relationship with all my parents' stuff, but I've vowed to clean it up without judgment

The doll retailer's new ad campaign laments that girls are growing up too fast.

The big quake in Niigata closes automaker production lines, but opens a window into the history of technological commercialization in Japan.

Salon spoke with Takei about his graphic memoir "The Called Us Enemy" and how Trump's policies are a "new low"

Pennsylvania's right-wing governor drains public schools of basic funds -- and the sickening details will shock you

“Where is our apology? How long must we wait?” demands Lola Catalina Lorenzo, who tells me her harrowing story

"Why did my Japanese American mom and so many other women in her circle choose to be with white men?"

Especially when those people explicitly espouse the superiority of the white race

Inside the strange, sometimes dangerous world of a Tokyo hostess. First in a series.

In a country that favors group-feeling to individualism, two fashion-based subcultures, "egg girls" and "little gals," cause a big stir.