Of all the things that can jolt a person awake in the dim early hours of the morning, a tsunami warning has to be one of the least...

“Grandma, I’d like to write a story.” I hovered by the kitchen table where Grandma was sitting with her sewing machine. My little hands...

One day, as I was biking across Japan, I found myself caught in a wild storm in the mountains near Hakone. Rain sheeted down on me, icy...