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Ditch the guidebook to avoid Japan's worst tourist draws

Yes, Mt. Fuji literally is a giant ashtray! From climbing giant ashtrays to watching tea grow cold, there's far too much attentio...

When I first saw the oil paintings of Paris by the Japanese artist, Takanori Oguiss (1901-1986), I was strangely reminded of the neutron...

Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto made his name photographing stuffed animals and waxworks. OK, this sounds like a dumb thing to do, but th...

The quintessential Japanese aesthetic is that of wabi sabi, a beauty associated with things that are simple, rustic, unpolished or even pla...

Japan, a hectic, densely-populated country, has always been guilty of overloading the senses. It is only natural that here too an ameliora...