Learning Japanese can be an exciting but challenging journey. With three writing systems (hiragana, katakana, and kanji) and ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, will present “Kimono: The Triumph of Japanese Dress,” an extraordinary exploration ...

The instrument manufacturing company Marusan Hashimoto in the city of Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, is very busy making strings ...

Wear the yukata to the bath area, undress in the changing room, leave your yukata and belt in the baskets provided. While a ...

Part of the reason why the Like A Dragon series has managed to last for so long and maintain a consistent following is thanks ...

One can see many colorful sea slugs at Tatsunokuchi, a popular diving spot in the city of Nagasaki. I dove about 10 meters ...

The katana blade is forged by master swordsmith Teruhira Kamiyama, while the aogai (mother-of-pearl inlay technique using abalone, turban, pearl oyster and other shells) blue shell lacquer scabbard is ...

Meiji-era prostitutes, whose names are etched in stone, find a voice in a new book by Georgina Challen and Yoshiko Nakano One ...

So, today let's shed some light on one tiny slice of Japanese culture: the usubata vase.

they will often have kanji stamps or signatures on the bottom, sometimes reflecting the artist or manufacturer and other times a royal mark honoring earlier periods of Japanese history.

The animation industry is hard and according to Hiroya Hasegawa, MAPPA's Vice President, it's up to the companies to create ...