Taro Kobayashi– Author –

It’s almost impossible to explain 1978 to someone who didn’t live through it. Japan was riding the crest of its postwar economic miracle, a nation humming with the energy of new technologies and relentless forward momentum. The cities we...

It happens to every traveler. That specific, sinking feeling when the variables of a long day abroad start to cascade into a minor crisis. Your phone battery is flashing a desperate red. You’re starting to get hungry, but not “sit down f...

You push open a heavy door, a small bell heralding your arrival. The air inside is different—cooler, quieter, and carrying the faint, sweet aroma of roasted coffee and, perhaps, a ghost of cigarette smoke from decades past. You slide int...