The Island

HSBC Ceylon Literary and Arts Festival Opens with Call to Inspire a New Generation

The third edition of the HSBC Ceylon Literary and Arts Festival opened on the banks of Beira Lake in Colombo (Cinnamon Lakeside) on Friday with a strong call to harness the power of arts and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy

The teenager was researching the Miura-ori fold when Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida and wildfires raged in ...

The Best Japanese Moisturizers Deliver More Than Just Lasting Hydration

That’s why Japanese moisturizers tend to be light, fluid, and quietly absorbent—designed to disappear into the skin, yet stay with it.” Below, with guidance from Getz as well as from board-certified ...

On a Volcanic Japanese Island, a Local Art Collective Has Transformed a House Into a Geothermal Cavern

The ancient city of Beppu, on the volcanic Japanese island of Kyushu, has long been shaped by its geothermal activity—people from all over the world flock here for its renowned ...
Stars and Stripes

No easy resolution to China-Japan rift over Taiwan, academics say

TOKYO — China and Japan have few options available to resolve increasing acrimony over the Japanese prime minister’s remarks about her country’s response to a potential attack on Taiwan, two academics ...
CNBC

Bank of Japan is poised to raise rates to a 30-year high despite economic weakness

The Bank of Japan is poised to raise rates to its highest level since 1995. A rate hike is likely to strengthen the yen against the dollar, and contain inflation. However, it risks further weakening ...
digitalcameraworld

Taken with a 61MP resolution specialist camera, this dark and moody vision of a Japanese temple transforms a postcard favorite into fine art

Awards and Competitions Fourth major photo award for striking Aoraki/Mount Cook aerial landscape shot, captured from an open airplane door... Awards and Competitions The world's best travel ...
WLRN

Professional female wrestlers bring Japanese subcultures into the ring for Miami Art week

Before entering the ring Thursday night in Miami Beach, Ichigo Sayaka spent six hours in hair and make up. A flurry of stylists buzzed around her, braiding long pink extensions into pigtails and ...
Phys.org

Researchers unveil first high-resolution maps of China's forest diversity patterns

A research team led by the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with multiple domestic and international research institutions, has made progress in ...
Scientific American

Here’s How to Get High-Resolution Views of Other Stars

The only major difference between the sun and the stars we see at night is that the sun happens to be close to us—which is advantageous, assuming you enjoy being alive. Astronomers enjoy this as well ...
WLRN

Japanese wrestling 'high-fashion spectacle' Sukeban returns to Miami during Art Basel

Japanese female wrestling sensation Sukeban announced last week that its returning to Miami to host a spectacular World Championship Fight during the height of Art Basel. The match will take place at ...
Frontiers

High-fidelity medical image generation: controllable synthesis of high-resolution medical images via hierarchical fusion in vector-quantized generative networks

Objective: High-resolution medical images are scarce, and existing image generation methods perform poorly at high resolutions, struggling with the representation of small lesions, loss of detailed ...