The term “Japanese garden” conjures up images of idyllic perfection, and it doesn’t get any better than the Adachi Museum of ...

The technique is the ancient art of Japanese Kintsugi, a powerful metaphor for life where nothing is ever truly broken. Metallic powder is mixed with resin or lacquer to fix pieces together The ...

A Sino-Japanese theater cultural exchange event was recently held in the city, featuring impressive performances by Kunqu ...

The traditional katana sword is fashioned only from the purest steel, which the Japanese call tamahagane ... the katana's handle is as much of a work of art as the blade itself.

Japanese artist Gaku's extraordinary talent manifests in the delicate and transient art of mukimono, where common fruits and ...

Odawara, Japan: You walk along a level daylight-filled corridor, some 300 feet long, one side lined with glass, the other with volcanic stones pockmarked by fossilized insects. Nearing the end, as ...

Japanese art was all around me while traveling through Kyoto and Tokyo in Japan. One of the reasons I started Passport by ...

By Holland Cotter Lisa Schiff acknowledges stealing millions from major collectors who trusted her to buy them fashionable art. By Sarah Maslin Nir His Brutalist buildings, praised during the ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio.

October 9, 2024 • A lynx stretching in the sun, tadpoles swimming beneath lily pads and an investigator dusting a tusk for prints are among the winning images from the newest Wildlife ...