Early last year, the designer Satoshi Kondo found himself in Hiroshima’s LOG hotel, cocooned in a room created almost entirely from washi, the strong, tightly woven paper that has been handcrafted in ...

This 2019 file photo shows an ambulance on a road. (Mainichi/Kazuhisa Soneda) SAPPORO -- A South Korean skier died after crashing into a tree on the side of a trail at a resort in the village of ...