- Film star Jackie Chan may play the role made famous by Pat Morita in the upcoming remake of The Karate Kid.
- The Ramen Girl, starring Brittany Murphy, gets ready for its release.
- Mochi-making lives on in Los Angeles.
- Take a look at what one writer called the “Most Unfairly Overlooked” art exhibition of 2008.
- Treating maple leaves like bonsai trees.
- Sweden’s Royal Academy of Sciences names two Japanese scientists as winners of the 2009 Crafoord Prize.
