This underrated city was once the capital of Japan in the Middle Ages and is now a beautiful, tourist-friendly hub with ...

The event is stirring memories of an exhibition in 1970, when the postwar Japanese economy was taking off and “you could have dreams about the future.” ...

Chinese sheng player Wu Tong and Japanese sho player Mayumi Miyata perform in Beijing on March 29. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] On March 29, Chinese sheng player Wu Tong shared the stage with ...

Historic kimono purveyor Yamato has enlisted its Yamato Lab team and the manufacturers at Tailor Toyo to reinterpret its ...

The PBS series Monstrum examined the ancient Japanese legend of Bake-kujira, a ghostly whale that seeks vengeance on humans.

Researchers say a fossil jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors.

Japanese video game company Nintendo on Wednesday announced ... 1889 by businessman and crafter Fusajiro Yamauchi as a small shop on a narrow side street in the ancient city of Kyoto. The shop used to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this Sept. 11, 2001 photo, firefighters work ...

Egyptology, the study of Ancient Egypt, is an area of research that was once closed to women. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a few women used their wealth to leave their mark on the field.

It is handmade, in keeping with the Shou Sugi Ban technique—an ancient Japanese method of wood charring. This process enhances the durability of the wood, bringing out a striking texture and ...

So, we were expecting more riots. On previous days, we saw people wearing different kinds of masks but on Sunday, this performer showed up dressed as a Dervish - a member of a Muslim religious order ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...