Johnny Mathis has cancelled forthcoming gigs and announced his retirement from touring at the age of 89. The veteran artist ...

A traditional Japanese sewing technique called sashiko, taught to victims of a 2011 disaster, has sparked a business creating ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

The newest wave of AI-generated art goes against everything the filmmaker and Studio Ghibli stand for. Not that that’s stopping anyone.

Ikebana, the Japanese floral art, is an ideal way to connect with nature and find inner harmony. This ancient art not only ...

Georgetown University hosted Seiwa Bunraku, a traditional Japanese puppet theater troupe, for a performance and lecture ...

I saw a painting of a woman, head down on a table, collapsed from melancholy,” remarks indie pop visionary and bestselling ...

W alk through the glowing, oak-lined dining room at Kuro and seams of gold snake their way beneath your feet, filling the cracks in the floor. It’s a nod to the Japanese art of ...

Neil is a new character played by Luca Marinelli, and he bears a striking resemblance to Solid Snake, the protagonist of Kojima's Metal Gear series. Toward the end of the 10-minute-long trailer ...

She was studying Japanese at a language school in Tokyo when the COVID-19 pandemic erupted. Compelled to return to China, she was frustrated, but also determined to come back to Japan after the ...

Snakes, for some, are the stuff of nightmares. For others, they’re beloved pets or fascinating research subjects. They’re classified in the suborder Serpentes and are related to lizards and other ...

TOKYO, March 6 — The Japanese government plans to invite to Japan this summer stateless people born to Japanese nationals and left in the Philippines after World War II, to coincide with the ...