Or, maybe it was about a year later when Julia Roberts revealed to “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert that “I play mah-jongg with my girlfriends once a week.” More likely, it was a ...

And the participants are not actors, but Long Islanders of all ages and backgrounds, finding their way to — or back to — one of the most iconic parlor games of the last century: mah-jongg.

Images of smoky late night mah-jongg dens packed with gamblers slamming down tiles with noisy abandon are best left to the movies. At the Matsumi-Gakuen free school in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture ...