Film critics and commentators have often drawn parallels between "My Neighbor Totoro" and aspects of Japan’s religious beliefs and folklore, particularly the concept of spirits and deities being ...

Maybe you’ve seen them in a Studio Ghibli movie, or maybe you’ve seen them in a TikTok tutorial. What is there to learn from bento boxes that are suddenly popping up in Western culture? To put it ...

Bento boxes bring class to eating. Take away the traditional flat plate, where all the food runs together. Take away the multiple plates used for appetizer, dinner and dessert. Use a bento box instead ...

If you Google the Web for “Bento box,” you’ll come across sites for software to help organize data. This is appropriate in that, for generations, the divided containers called Bento boxes have ...

Check out Lark E. Mason's appraisal of a Japanese lacquer box, ca. 1800, in Vintage San Jose, Hour 2. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, ...