High-speed rail systems are found all over the globe. For example, Japan’s bullet train began operating in 1964. China will have 31,000 miles of high-speed track by the end of 2025. The fastest train ...

The Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 is widely regarded as the moment that unified Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate. Yet the ...

The problem is that people tend to neglect virtue in favor of other “goods,” Aristotle observed: things like riches, property, reputation and power. Yet virtue itself provides the way to acquire them.

America’s development path took the opposite direction. From its earliest frontier mythology to its 20th-century industrial booms, the United States built its identity around reinvention, rapid ...

More adults have sought insight on their own neurodiversity in the last decade — often after their children are diagnosed or ...

Ukraine is redefining what the concept of victory looks like in modern warfare, not by chasing the total destruction of ...

Deep breathing can be an effective way to reduce stress at work, studies show. But on the job, many people do not think about ...

I have often written about how Japan influenced me growing up, mostly from its culture of entertainment and history. But I never expected the persistent companionship of Japanese music to find me ...

Over half of the respondents reported symptoms of burnout, which ranged from emotional exhaustion to wanting to quit. Many ...