As Japan’s population shrinks, maintaining rail service in remote small towns is becoming a challenge. Is this the answer?

The 107,000-sq.-ft. space was conceived by the Japanese art collective teamLab, which was founded in 2001 and includes animators, programmers and mathematicians. The group’s mission, per its ...

Time passed at a relaxed pace when this reporter visited an art museum here whose main building features barrel-vaulted ceilings among many ･･･ ...