How do you navigate between your Japanese and Australian identities when you are both?

Michelin shines a little less bright in the Land of the Rising Sun.

东亚教育制度真的有我们想象的那么严格吗？

East Asian education is not all that it seems

Platforms like VKontakte, WeChat and 2channel prove that Facebook's empire isn't global.

In a religion that simultaneously advocates world peace and conflict, is the country ready for the unique and radical theologies Happy Science wishes to impart?

Angela Prendergast on the bizarre story behind America’s favourite karaoke song

Sophie Gallagher got nekkid.

Contemporary Japanese art is not driving social change, writes Marcus James.

“Yes, even by Koriyama standards, this is cold,” the cabbie says cheerfully, snow-laden winds buffeting the windscreen. I’m in northern Japan, Fukushima Prefecture, to attend a meeting between a group of Tokyo lawyers and local farmers. A group of schoolgirls on bikes struggle past in skirts and socks, and a small, morbid part of my…