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 ...

Part R+D kitchen and part sushi speakeasy, Friends Only is sliding into a space on California Street near Larkin in mid-October, bringing ever-changing menus flooded with high-end ingredients to Lower ...

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 ...