People spend more, socialize more, walk more and gravitate more toward pretty places. So why is so much of what we build ugly?

The country’s objects and ideas, including matcha and emojis, that have had an outsize influence on the world.

Convenience stores, ice and whisky first came as U.S. imports. Then, they were reinvented.

Before we pour billions into a maglev line between D.C. and Baltimore, let’s step off the platform and ask: Does this make ...

AI's rise to popularity happened through cartoons, especially stylized images inspired by Japanese animation, per Altman.

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When Dior announced its April 15 Pre-Fall 2025 show would take place outside the To-Ji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, I imagined ...

The people’s princess Ayo Edebiri will co-star ... Mart with a screenplay from the book’s author, Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast, but he stepped away from the project amid the Hollywood ...

Super Nintendo World, the first theme park land based on Nintendo games, has been welcoming guests in California since 2023, and even longer in Japan ... be overlooked by people who immediately ...

Russian incursions on both U.S. coasts are increasing to levels not seen since the February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.