Living in Nagano city, Kondo is a member of the Japanese Alpine Club, the Himalayan Association of Japan and the Japan Academic Society of Mountain Culture.

South Koreans who secretly loved Japanese pop songs in their youth are now reveling in nostalgia, as the renewed popularity of Showa-retro tunes from the 1970s and ’80s sparks a new era of cultural ...

Marie Kondo, an organization celebrity in Japan, shows us the folding methods that earned her a spot on Time's 2015 "Top 100 Influential People" list. You can learn more about her tidying methods ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Marie Kondo is the queen of organization. Her book, "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing," reveals her ...

As a member of the Russian Ballet Theater, Masayo Kondo is feeling the fierce fighting in Ukraine weighing on her from all sides. The Japanese ballerina and her fellow cast members learned of ...

Japan's Ryota Kondo reacts as he crosses the Osaka Marathon finish line second behind Ethiopia's Yihunilign Adane at Osaka Castle Park on Feb. 24, 2025. (Kyodo) OSAKA (Kyodo) -- Ethiopia's ...