This is roughly the distance from Tokyo to Hong Kong, a journey a renowned haiku poet covered on foot in approximately five months over 300 years ago. That poet was Matsuo Bashō, and the ...

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) experienced both rain and ... Haruka Takimoto studies haiku at Hokusei Gakuen University in Sapporo, where long-clawed bears and pond turtles have reappeared.

Four years ago, the Kyoto National Museum reinstituted its annual series foregrounding the Chinese zodiac animals. It now celebrates China’s Year of the Pig — Japan’s Year of the Boar (inoshishi).

The Frog & Turtle gastropub in Westbrook announced Sunday that the restaurant will close for good in early March after 17 years in business, due in part to financial pressure caused by required ...

Naoko Matsuo started her career as a language teacher in Japan. She is passionate about sharing the joy of encountering a new world and communicating in a language other than their own with her ...

It is a “frog in the pot” moment for New Zealand, which for years had been encouraging China’s involvement in the region. Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown inked the deal for an ...

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“(They thought) ‘Oh, it’s a frog. It sounds cute.’ But the problem is they have no predators here. So we have to be the predators.” In Haiku, home to the island’s largest known ...