Last week, I wrote about Hamaguchi Goryō, the man who lit the rice sheaves on fire to guide the way to high ground for his town. There are many in Japan today who have taken on his mantle of ...

This was done to commemorate Inamura-no-hi, which fell on November 5, 1854, wherein a tsunami was declared to hit following an earthquake by Japanese farmer Hamaguchi Goryō in his observation of ...

A sneak peek: novelist Yiyun Li, cartoonist Daniel Clowes, filmmakers Ari Aster, Amalia Ulman, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi, critics Hunter Harris and Thora Siemsen, writer Lucy Sante, cult writer/actor ...

The Hamaguchi Award is named after 19th-century Japanese leader Hamaguchi Goryō, who is remembered for guiding his village to safety from a tsunami. The award was established in 2016 in conjunction ...