What a beautiful connection to Lafcadio Hearn's legacy! Baby Jinto was born in Waterford and lives in Tramore, he and his mum ...

So ahead of his time that we are still learning to become his contemporaries, Irish writer (Patrick) Lafcadio Hearn ...

In 1864, 30-year-old Norwegian-American William Copeland (1834-1902) arrived in Yokohama. Copeland — described by Waseda ...

HYōGO, this morning, lies bathed in a limpid magnificence of light indescribable, — spring light, which is vapory, and lends a sort of apparitional charm to far things seen through it. Forms ...

The Holy Well is set on a natural spring and draws thousands of pilgrims. The Lafcadio Hearn Japanese Gardens is located in the beautiful seaside town of Tramore, Co Waterford and reflects the ...

The writer Lafcadio Hearn once said of New Orleans, “Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a ...

There’s a moment in Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, that reads like a Rorschach test. A few weeks after a young man stabs Rushdie multiple times at ...