A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the most prolific and popular Ukiyo-e artists in Japan. The word Ukiyo-e means ...

Tensions have risen to dangerous levels between Japan and China over a small group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, called the Senkaku by the Japanese and the Diaoyu by the Chinese.

Xu Jiahui, a national inheritor of Liangping woodblock New Year painting, colors a woodblock print at his workshop in Chongqing's Liangping district on Jan 14. HUANG WEI/XINHUA As Wen Li attached ...

Xu Jiahui, a national inheritor of Liangping woodblock New Year painting, colors a woodblock print at his workshop in Chongqing's Liangping district on Jan 14. HUANG WEI/XINHUA As Wen Li attached her ...

Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 28 (ANI): Ono Keiichi, Ambassador of Japan to India on Tuesday visited OneHub Chennai, where he engaged in productive discussions with representatives of Japanese ...

Fresh weather warnings for heavy rain and wind have been issued for parts of England and Wales by the Met Office after a weekend of battering by Storm Eowyn. Following miserable weekend weather ...

High-intensity rain — more than half an inch per hour — can wreak havoc on burned areas, increasing the likelihood of flooding and landslides on soil made water-repellent by fire. Ahead of the ...

Rain eased on Monday after Southern California’s first significant storm of the season brought weekend downpours that aided firefighters but caused ash, mud and debris to flow across streets in ...

The possibility for isolated showers will remain across the L.A. Basin into Tuesday. Rain totals as of early Monday showed that much of the region received significant rainfall, though amounts ...