As you enter the Capitol Hill sushi restaurant Omakase @ Barracks Row, the stairwell is lined with framed prints of Shizuoka ...

There’s an ick about chinoiserie. A palpable unease gurgles beneath the veneer of politesse and delicate refinement on ...

New Bedford Art Museum has opened two new exhibits around a unique printmaking technique and dynamic ceramic pieces. Here's a ...

Singapore is now the first country to have an art installation 7,000 metres beneath the ocean ... these artworks were installed near the Mariana Trench off the coast of Japan by NuStar Technologies in ...

Away from Tokyo, the center of modernity, rural train stations are often still made of wood and are particularly prone to decay. In order to renovate these outdated stations, West Japan Railway Co (JR ...

The digital art show, “Naked Sakura Aquarium,” is offering visitors ... Add TheJapanNews to your Google News feed. Japan Oct.-Dec. GDP Revised Down to 2.2 Pct Annual Rise Japan Sells 141,796 Tons of ...

Four Japanese firms along with Airbus have partnered to develop wood-biomass based sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) that will also be CORSIA compliant, the companies announced Monday. Four Japanese ...

The service life of wooden commercial buildings, set for tax purposes, is currently 24 years, while that of reinforced concrete buildings is 50 years. According to ministry data on buildings that ...

The Shikoku port city of Takamatsu is often the jumping-off point for the smaller art-laden islands of Naoshima, Teshima and others. Yet Kagawa’s prefectural capital and the rustic castle town ...

The Ishikawa Prefectural Training Institute of Woodturning in the area is the only place in Japan where the technique of turning wood on a lathe and shaping it with a blade is formally taught. Ryozo ...

TOKYO -- Li Yalin, a 28-year-old second-year master's student at the private Kyoto University of the Arts, moved to Japan in 2019 after earning a degree from a university in China. She was ...

TheFirstHammer Unveiling the Art Behind Crafting a Wooden Drum Posted: March 1, 2025 | Last updated: March 1, 2025 Curious about how a wooden drum goes from raw timber to a rhythmic masterpiece ...