One twilight evening in Tokyo was particularly enlightening. I was racing against time to see what I might see before the twilight faded into darkness. I raced against time. My mind kept rewinding the ...

Scenes of buildings reduced to rubble were beamed around the world this week following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Ishikawa prefecture on Japan’s western coast on Monday. The full extent of ...

Oddly enough, a tree has become the center of efforts to conserve traditional architecture in Tokyo's historic Yanaka district. The 90-year-old Himalayan cedar stands on a plot purchased by an ...