A maze of board-marked concrete walls encloses this public toilet in Tokyo, which interior design studio Wonderwall created for the Tokyo Toilet project and modelled on prehistoric Japanese ...

Paleontologists in Japan have unearthed the jaw of a primitive mammal from the early Cretaceous period. The pint-size creature, named Sasayamamylos kawaii for the geologic formation in Japan where it ...

ONAN, Shimane Prefecture—The first fossil of a primitive walrus species found outside of North America suggests that the prehistoric pinniped inhabited both sides of the northern Pacific Ocean, ...

The primitive Japanese rice farmer thinning out seedlings calls the process mabiki —to make intervals. Colloquially, the word means infanticide, used to space surviving children. In Japan today, the ...

A reoccurring theme in Fujimoto’s work is the “primitive future.” This apparent contradiction refers to the primordial, intuitive moments that reconnect us with our own humanity, and open us up to new ...

Regarding the opinion piece "How much damage was done?" in the Sept. 11 edition, the author writes that Naomi Osaka "speaks primitive Japanese." I was troubled by use of the term primitive. I wonder ...