Today, Tokyo's greater metropolitan area is home to some 37 million people. From fishing village to feudal capital to bombed-out ruin to global megacity in the space of roughly fourteen centuries — it ...

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Tokyo’s museum landscape reflects the city that contains it: extraordinarily varied, densely packed, and operating simultaneously across registers that most cities cannot sustain within the same ...

“The past is never dead,” William Faulkner famously wrote. “It’s not even past.” Faulkner wasn’t writing about Tokyo when he crafted those lines, but he easily could have been. Although it is ...