For her graduation thesis, Mizuki Tanaka, then an art history student at Meiji Gakuin University, chose to explore how the motif of Mount Fuji evolved into the most commonly used in murals decorating ...

Sentō, or public bathhouses in Japan has been around since the 6th Century. Initially introduced as buddhism ritual to cleanse the body of impurities, the bathing culture gradually became part of ...

Japan’s traditional “sentō” public bathhouses are dwindling in number even as “super sentō” and other kinds of large-scale bathing and leisure facilities enjoy increasing popularity. “Sentō” public ...

The mere mention of the word sentō (or neighborhood public bath) is enough to trigger nostalgia pangs in most Japanese people old enough to have memories of daily visits to the local bathhouse in ...

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In Japan, saunas suddenly seem everywhere. On Instagram, influencers and actors appeared to visit them daily and the app was bombarding me with ads for mountain retreats with cold-plunge pools.