In a world obsessed with aesthetic perfection, wabi-sabi is an ancient Japanese philosophy that celebrates the beauty of the ...

Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and ...

The Kansai area will never experience a major earthquake.” That was how many people felt before the Great Hanshin-Awaji ...

On the outskirts of Otsunomiya, Japan, Takashi Kuribayashi is redefining the boundaries between contemporary art and ...

Its popularity in the West has helped to cement Japan’s global cultural influence, as Japanese cuisine gained a reputation ...

TOKYO, March 22 — After celebrating qualification for an eighth consecutive World Cup finals with beaming smiles and high fives, Japan shifted focus towards becoming the first Asian side to win ...

“Never again,” Japanese Americans and immigrant rights ... regardless of criminal history. “We must not scapegoat and criminalize entire communities of immigrants and people of color.

He started as a club disc jockey in the 1980s, formed the Tiny Panx music unit in 1985 and was active in the early days of hip-hop in Japan. In the 1990s, he played an important role in the “Urahara ...

Students also received a crash course in soroban history. China introduced its version of the abacus to Japan in the 1600s, and the Japanese refined it to suit their needs, according to a video ...

Japan’s “lost decade” was a time of discovery for the nation’s female photo­graphers. Beyond the decoupling from commercial art that can ... the contexts and history of Japanese women ...

Heigoro Endo, a Japanese national ... those that took place during one of the darkest chapters of the nation’s history. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s use of the law, in the immediate ...

But as Ohtani himself acknowledges, plenty of work was needed to reach what is undeniably a high point in the history of Japanese baseball. “It’s hard to tell if this is the golden age for ...