April 30, 2017 | Lifestyle.INQ

LOOK: Samurai-themed cruise ship makes waves at Tokyo Bay

For day cruises, guests will be treated to scenic views, while evening tours offer dinner and traditional stage performances.

WATCH: Theme park offers ‘thugs you can beat up to’ impress your bae

The park will be offering what they call a “new-style flash mob.”

Urban farming flourishes in New York

The urban farm craze is finding fertile ground in New York, where 10 young entrepreneurs are learning to grow greens and herbs without soil, bathed in an indoor, psychedelic light.

Climbing stairs instead of drinking coffee is better energy booster — study

Walking up and down the stairs for 10 minutes gave much higher energy levels than 50 milligrams of caffeine.

Cashless in weird Tokyo

As the rikishi of Arashio Beya (2-47-2, Hama-cho Nihonbashi Chuo-ku, Tokyo) began their morning practice on Black Saturday, I was still in bed surrounded by Pikachus in the Pokemon-themed room I had found on AirBnB. Guests can watch the sumo wrestlers through large windows between 7:30 to 10 a.m. during this almost daily session (see www.arashio.net/tour_e.html) and by the time I got there, practice was just wrapping up.

Our man in Malaysia is a seasoned diplomat who survived Tiananmen, the Bangkok bombings

Charles Cabayan José puts on his pewter gray coat and enters the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) press room packed with journalists and reporters representing almost all media organizations.

Elmer Borlongan, Ross Capili and Romeo Lee on art and audiophilia

Music seems to feed into visual artists’ creative process, in many cases directly influencing what goes on the canvas

Telling our story

One of the authors who has influenced my work for the past 14 years is Margaret Wheatley. She wrote that if you want to restore an organization to health, you must reconnect it to its identity.