A look at Japan’s love of packaging, from impeccably crafted cardboard to lacquered works of art. By Nick Haramis In the story of Urashima Taro, a Japanese folk tale dating to the eighth century, a ...

Japan’s Motion Picture Producers Association has selected Kokuho, a film set in the world of Japanese traditional theater (“kabuki”), as the country’s contender for Best International Feature Film at ...

Design for manufacturing. In the U.S., it's a practice that has emerged gradually over the last few years as companies have learned the hard way the follies of "over-the-wall" engineering ...