Culture

At CarterJMRN we’ve heard many times over the years that Japanese people do not seem to care about climate change or, for that matter, environmental issues in general. This makes it hard for...
Japan’s entertainment scene was shaken last month when Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. said it terminated its management contract with 49-year-old Hiroyuki Miyasako.
You have heard it before: Their diet endows Japanese people with centennially long lives, slender figures, and generally good health.
A key Zen truth is that nothing is permanent. Therefore it follows that attachment to transient objects will bring suffering.
For Gen Z in Japan, it seems to be all about having jobs, money and security for the future. Right now things are...
Coming from a land of suburban castles, it’s sometimes a little surprising for Americans to see the relative lack of focus Japanese place...
It was back in 2006 that columnist, Maki Fukusawa, alerted us to the possibility that Japan’s fabled salarymen were mutating into something rather...

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