Maki-e is a technique in which gold powder and other materials are sprinkled on this lacquered surface to create patterns and designs as if manipulating light and dark in an infinite universe. This ...

A set of hina dolls is on display at Higashiosaka city hall in Osaka Prefecture. The dolls, crafted by a local company, are displayed on a fancy seven･･･ ...

Fusako Goto was a toddler in Fukuoka, Japan, when she started using chopsticks to eat. At age 65, she now teaches elementary school students in Litchfield how to use the Japanese eating utensils.

In Japan’s bucolic northeast, Hoshino Resorts KAI Akiu breathes new life into a sleepy hot spring village without betraying ...

If you really want your life-sized Gardevoir plush and you want to save yourself shipping fees, you're in luck, as the ...

The fair’s commitment to textile arts reveals the medium’s evolving role in contemporary expression. Known for her ...

China countered President Donald Trump's across-the-board tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs on select U.S. imports ...

The artist, who died at 85, used Indigenous imagery like the canoe and the buffalo the way Warhol used soup cans.

Shoppers are eager to get their hands on the limited-availability merchandise at the new Disney Storyland Boutique.

One Austin woman’s desire to create a fermented food-related plush toy resulted in a cult following that celebrates Asian representation around the world ...

The “Princess of R&B” has been enshrined in plastic, and Mattel’s new collectible doll celebrating Aaliyah‘s memory is nothing less than fantastic. The latest entry in Mattel Creations ...

TAKASAKI, Gunma — About 10,000 old Japanese daruma dolls were ritually burned during a memorial service for the good-luck talisman figures, which represent the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma, in Takasaki, ...