Tokyo Correspondence

The success of Shiseido's shampoo marketing offered me an opportunity to tell the story about Japanese women and their changing self-...

Japanese summers are never complete without Bon Odori, the neighborhood thanksgiving celebration of the harvest, the annual homecoming of an...

Ishamel Reed, poet, essayist and scholar that many of us knew was a genius before the MacArthur Foundation made it official, plays piano on ...

In some ways, a farmer has more in common with farmers in other nations than with people of other occupations in the same country. That can ...

A couple of our reporters were out this week and so I got to do politics stories for a change. It's an exciting time to be covering p...

I took a ride on the world's first hybrid train to go into commercial service. It's a cute little train in a resort area that'...

Rice holds such a special place in Japanese culture it becomes very political. I couldn't get into the complexities in my story about ...