Koyo Kouoh, who will curate the 2026 Venice Biennale, has assembled a huge survey at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in ...

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The recent surge of Chinese travelers into Japan may be creating much-needed ambassadors.

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions ...

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From newcomer Setchu to stalwarts like Junya Watanabe and Comme des Garçons, Japanese designers are commercially and ...

A professor at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, and director of the Emergency and Critical Care Center at Kobe University Hospital, KOTANI ...

When asked what it takes to “truly” belong in a country, many people globally say speaking the local language is key.

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The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...