Since the Japanese anime boom of the past few decades, Akihabara has been a refuge for the otaku — someone who would “go ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

DEATH is not an experience in life (Ludwig Wittgenstein). Indeed, death is always described from the perspective of the living. How one perceives, thinks and feels about life and death throughout ...

Tributes to Pope Francis poured in from around the world, from presidents to people of all walks of life, after the Vatican ...

Rt. Rev. Mark Davies, Bishop of Shrewsbury (Diocese of Shrewsbury) Rev. Mark Davies, Bishop of Shrewsbury Easter celebrates the victory of life over death and our deepest identity as a nation of ...

And while most of us are stuck daydreaming about this sweet, responsibility-free life, one man in Tokyo is actually living it. Shoji Morimoto, a middle-aged Japanese guy living in Tokyo ...

Japanese actor Mizuki Itagaki ... "He had just begun taking steps to return to work, so it’s heartbreaking that his life ended this way—something he never would have expected." The family also ...

Time and death are “on pause” for some people in Scottsdale, a city in the US state of Arizona. Inside tanks filled with liquid nitrogen are the bodies and heads of 199 humans. They opted to ...

Each criminal should get what their crime deserves and in the case of a murderer what their crime deserves is death ... part to play in the life of the Japanese, who live under severe stress ...