Sanae Takaichi, the first woman to lead Japan as prime minister, skipped a sumo awards ceremony, reflecting her cautious ...

Enjoy Japanese culture that stimulates all the senses in an extraordinary space while surrounded by art MINATO-KU, ...

Feast your eyes on this vivid, engaging, and character-driven Netflix Original anime series set in 20th-century England.

The costume for Tifa is called the Golden Flower Kimono, and it will be in the FFVII Ever Crisis in-game shop. This means you will need to spend real money to get it. It is part of New Year 2026 Pack ...

Ten years on, Y. & Sons a far cry from niche. The Omotesando store shows how the brand plans to grow without diluting its vision It’s opening night at Y & Sons’ new outpost in Omotesando and the party ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

Very few people get to invent a new language that is heard by millions: DW talked to linguist Paul Frommer about how he developed the "Avatar" aliens' language. "It's been quite a remarkable event in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

Kim Kardashian finally got to use the name “Kimono.” And she did so without being accused of cultural appropriation. The multi-hyphenate has been sharing behind-the-scenes wardrobe photos and designer ...

Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...