For decades, Akiko’s Restaurant has delighted diners with an omakase experience equal parts intimate and elegant, earning the family-run restaurant a spot in the hearts of many a San Francisco sushi ...

She’s “Sweet and Funky,” she’s “Cute and Bad”. A Composer. A Performer extraordinaire. The legendary Dr. Lonnie Smith describes her this way: “Akiko's playing is like watching a flower blooming, a ...

Princess Akiko, the second cousin of Emperor Naruhito, lent a regal air to the Japanese Grand Prix on 6 April as she made a rare public appearance at the event. As an honorary patron of the event, she ...

Akiko Pavolka is a Brooklyn-based musician, composer and educator who’s strikingly original music blends pop and jazz with the music and sensibilities of her native Japan. Akiko was born in Tokyo and ...

Japan’s Princess Akiko was in attendance at the Japanese Grand Prix this weekend to present the winner’s trophy; she was there in her capacity as honorary patron of the race. The Princess, 42, is the ...

The early-twentieth-century poet Yosano Akiko earned herself a place in Japan’s literary history. She also left behind a series of essays on the influenza pandemic that hit Japan hard in the years ...

you who preach the Way? Many Japanese people who hear the name Yosano Akiko will recall this famous tanka of hers. It appeared in Tangled Hair, her 1901 collection of dazzling, free-spirited love ...