With Japan’s first full-colour film, Carmen Comes Home, screening around the UK, we dive into the luminous world of Japanese colour filmmaking in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Anyone who’s spent time in London will know how stunningly fast winter lands its bleak self — and how long it sticks around — ...

How can I manage work and child care? Female students at the University of Yamanashi concerned about their future working ...

Anime often explores loneliness profound and universal emotion through stories of isolation across the full spectrum of ...

Claire Foster, a Toronto-based literary translator and bookseller, shares what it's like moving to Canada from the US.

As an American living in Japan, one of the best parts of being based here is the chance to visit remote places that are often ...

Methanol is metabolized into the natural gas methane by many microbes living under Earth’s surface, but its source has been unclear. It emerges that some bacteria convert formate molecules into ...

Fertility rates have fallen everywhere outside of sub-Saharan Africa. And they have fallen faster, and dropped even further, ...

During 64 years in Thailand, Allan and Joan Eubank have planted churches and started schools and ridden elephants and sent a ...

A boy plays in the snow during Siberia's notoriously cold winter. Far from Kremlin leaders in Moscow and the frontlines of ...

In recent months, there’s been a real shift in people’s confidence and boldness when using colour in their homes. And that’s especially true when it comes to living room colour schemes. Most living ...