At the beginning of April, a cheerful commercial was broadcast on various media in Japan. In it, a girl goes to a store to buy the same pair of red-and-white socks her friend is wearing but becomes disappointed when she finds they’re sold out. ...
One hundred years later, under the stewardship of his grandson, Ayman Tamer, the business he founded is one of the largest distributors and producers of pharmaceuticals, vaccines and medical devices in Saudi Arabia, a pioneer in commerce and a standard-bearer for the kingdom’s social ...
Renewing focus on their faith and spiritual life, Muslim communities around the world have spent the past month fasting and praying during Ramadan, the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. The end of this period is marked with a joyous celebration known as Eid ...
Economic expansion a major priority of development strategy
Since President Shavkat Mirziyoyev came to power, Uzbekistan has undertaken a large-scale program of economic and social reforms and structural transformations in the country. Under his leadership, a policy is being pursued to increase the accountability and transparency of the government, regional cooperation is expanding ...
While the United Nations sustainable development goals present the diverse challenges the world faces, it is important that companies and municipalities examine what exactly they can do and who they can partner with to maximize the impact of their actions, fully aware that what ...
Japanese philanthropist Haruhisa Handa, who is a professional in many fields, including calligraphy, art, music, noh dramas and literature, as well as business, held a solo exhibition of his artworks, including paintings, pottery and Japanese calligraphy, in Tokyo from March 18 to 21. The exhibition ...
Agon Shu festival focuses on wishes, hopes in difficult times
A man dressed as a yamabushi (mountain priest) picks up a wooden votive tablet that has fallen beside one of two huge bonfires. He makes a silent prayer as he holds it reverently in both hands before tossing it into the flames. The gomagi ...
Naturally relaxing retreats in Okinawa’s World Heritage Sites
Okinawa’s rich natural heritage beckons adventurous travelers to sustainably explore the wild, while the Ryukyu archipelago’s mild climate makes it an ideal place for a seaside “workation” at any time of year. Enjoy a working vacation on Iriomote Island Okinawa’s second-largest island of Iriomote is part ...
“There’s just so much cooking going on in the Japanese home that could be part of people’s lives, and what they’re looking for — the health benefits, the clean taste,” said famed New York French fusion chef David Bouley during a recent interview with ...
Monarch stays mindful of pain amid pandemic
Emperor Naruhito, who turns 62 today, is known for his compassionate and sociable personality, as well as his proficiency in English, as the first emperor to have studied outside Japan. Born in 1960, the eldest son of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko, the ...
Chances are you haven’t met an Ainu speaker in Japan. After all, Google’s Endangered Languages Project puts the number of native speakers at fewer than five. But the Ainu people once populated a wide swath of northern Japan, stretching from Tohoku to Hokkaido, the ...
In 2009, UNESCO in its “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” designated the Ainu language as being critically endangered. As the most dire of the five categories — only extinct is worse — used in the report, it highlighted the precarious state that ...
