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Kyoto Station

Arts, Culture & Media

Kyoto may be the 1200-year-old home of Japanese classical arts, but you wouldn’t know it when you first get here. Built in 1997 by Hiroshi Hara, Kyoto Station is a stunning living monument to modern Japan. A hub for multiple regional and local train lines, it’s also home to great restaurants and multiple shopping centers. […]

Design for the (Japanese) World: Vol. 2

Arts, Culture & Media
The view from the tracks

In photos: A view of America from the tracks

Media
Migrants, mostly from Central America, take trains nicknamed "The Beast" through Mexico to the US border.

Many immigrants in the US know this particularly dangerous train ride very well

Conflict & Justice
Migrants, mostly from Central America, take trains nicknamed "The Beast" through Mexico to the US border.

Many immigrants in the US know this particularly dangerous train ride very well

Conflict & Justice
Lac-Mégantic almost eight months after a train derailed and exploded in the middle of the town.

A Michigan journalist finds echoes of Detroit in a shattered Canadian town

Will Detroit ever come back to its former glory? That’s the question that haunts a Michigan reporter after a visit to the small Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic, which was devastated by an oil train derailment last summer. On a small scale, the town’s empty blocks and uncertain hopes seemed all too familiar.
Will Detroit ever come back to its former glory? That’s the question that haunts a Michigan reporter after a visit to the small Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic, which was devastated by an oil train derailment last summer. On a small scale, the town’s empty blocks and uncertain hopes seemed all too familiar.