As an American travel writer living with my family in Bali, Indonesia, all of Asia essentially acts as our backyard. We explore it eagerly and often. For our first trip as a family of four, we ...

Cats are beloved in Japan, as they have been for thousands of years. From old mythological tales of feline yokai like the smart shape-shifting bakeneko to the Hello Kitties and lucky maneki-nekos of ...

A lot of thought goes into picking baby names in Japan. Not only do parents have to pick how the name will sound, but also how it’ll be written, since the Japanese language’s system of kanji ...