Performed in Japanese with English supertitles ... Shuji Terayama wrote Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, nominally drawing from Bela Bartók’s famous operatic version of the French legend ...

That makes now the perfect time for less-visited areas of Japan to use anime to try to draw in tourists ... of the beautiful and historic Fukuyama Castle. The character has a real historical ...

Castle stay programs such as the one in Ozu are drawing attention across Japan as a catalyst for attracting tourists well into the prospective aftermath of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Upon being proclaimed Shogun (feudal military dictator) of Japan in 1603, Ieyasu constructed a palace that would reflect his supreme power. Nijo Castle in central Kyoto was certainly ostentatious ...