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

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its ...

One of Japan’s most successful manga series will be translated into English, 19 years after it began dominating its home ...

With more women drawn to the samurai practice, Filipinas of different ages and backgrounds find focus, discipline, and a ‘more courageous version’ of themselves in this 600-year-old martial arts ...

Lynn Ray pointed to a dark rock propped against a lamp on one of the shelves that displays dozens of Chinese and Japanese art ...

Yoshiyuki Tamura was living in Tokyo, working at Uniqlo, and had no aspirations of taking over his family’s tea farm back in ...

TOTTORI—The face of a Japanese woman who lived around 1,800 years ago and wouldn't look out of place today has been ...

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The global hit anime “Demon Slayer” (known in Japan as “Kimetsu no Yaiba”) is approaching its conclusion. The final story arc ...

A soroban “allows students to see and manipulate a physical representation of abstract numbers,” according to The Japan ...

Culling ancient works from the Asia Society’s collection, Rina Banerjee, Howardena Pindell, and Byron Kim look to the past to challenge ideas of identity and authenticity.