One of these guardians of Japan’s intangible cultural riches, Kiichiro Masumura, a master in the technique of Urushi lacquer, ...

In 2019, Max Lamb spent a lot of time in Japan – not for a sabbatical or a holiday, but to master the Urushi techniques of the craftspeople living in Wajima, in Ishikawa prefecture, on the northern ...

Isekai manga never stops presenting more and more weird premises for their main stories, and it's a genre that holds the record for creating the longest titles in all fiction, so ...

Broken pieces of pottery are reconnected with an added artistic embellishment that brings new life to once-damaged ceramics. This experience, held at Kyoto’s historic Shikata Urushi store, teaches ...

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She fell first for a blue shimmery Conway Stewart for about US$670 (RM4,359) and then couldn’t help buying two pens from Bob ...

After the airing of the final episode, a second season was announced, but there is currently no release date for it yet. [101] An unnamed man is tragically killed in a car accident and reincarnates in ...

Rakugo Scholar Matthew Shores to Talk at Waseda University in Japanese about His Research; First in the Donald Keene Memorial Foundation Lecture Series Matthew Shores, an American scholar of rakugo ...

An exhibition focusing on the connection between Donald Keene (1922-2019), who played a major role in introducing Japanese literature to the world, and the classic 11th-century novel “Tale of Genji” ...