A long time ago in Kyoto, I had the pleasure of dining with the first Japanese to win the Nobel Prize for physics, Hideki Yukawa...

One of Japan's greatest professional baseball players, Shigeo Nagashima of the Yomiuri Giants, could always be counted on to come through...

The T'ang poet Yu Wu-ling ends his poem "Offering Wine" by saying that life is full of partings: Accept the golden drinking cup that I...

It is often said that the completion of a fancy new office building can be a corporation's downfall. Sitting at their desks and working...

I recently dined with a man involved in a wide range of businesses. "They say the economy is recovering," he noted, "but I do not see...