(Mainichi/Masahiko Sasaki) TAKAMATSU -- Service staff at traditional ... between men and women may be meaningless." Yamamoto decided to change the stereotype that serving Japanese cuisine is ...

What Sala and his team find 'interesting' is that the Japanese diet only prevented brain shrinkage in women: Men consuming a traditional Japanese diet experienced the same reduction in brain size ...

He later realised that many Japanese men are similarly weighed down by pressure to fill the traditional male role. He now runs a “men’s hotline” in the city of Osaka, which encourages men to ...

The cozy cleanliness of Scandinavian interiors and the minimalist beauty of traditional Japanese decor have made them both staples of modern home design. Now, there’s a growing trend combining t ...