High-speed rail systems are found all over the globe. For example, Japan’s bullet train began operating in 1964. China will have 31,000 miles of high-speed track by the end of 2025. The fastest train ...

The Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 is widely regarded as the moment that unified Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate. Yet the ...

The problem is that people tend to neglect virtue in favor of other “goods,” Aristotle observed: things like riches, property, reputation and power. Yet virtue itself provides the way to acquire them.

America’s development path took the opposite direction. From its earliest frontier mythology to its 20th-century industrial booms, the United States built its identity around reinvention, rapid ...

To determine who was a national security threat, the government used overt racial profiling. Similar to today, when the U.S. government often misidentifies Latino Americans as noncitizens, a majority ...

I have often written about how Japan influenced me growing up, mostly from its culture of entertainment and history. But I never expected the persistent companionship of Japanese music to find me ...

Rosé, perhaps best known as one-fourth of the juggernaut girl group Blackpink, is the first K-pop artist to ever receive a nomination in the record of the year field for “APT.,” her megahit with ...

No one suggests that a catchy song can fully eliminate serious pain. But several recent studies, including in the journals Pain and Scientific Reports, have suggested that listening to music can ...