The film “Honenashi Toro” (“Boneless Lantern”), which recorded an exceptional five-month-long run at a small theater in ...

This region is renowned for its top-quality matcha, and one of the oldest tea purveyors in the area is Itohkyuemon, which can trace its history back to 1832, towards the end of the Edo period ... as ...

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Once polluted and suffering from depopulation, Naoshima has become Japan's hottest contemporary art enclave – and there are signs that life there may be finally rebounding. Shinichi Kobayashi ...

The year 2025 promises to be a crucial year for Japan’s cultural landscape, with a nationwide program of events. Exhibitions, reviews and art installations will transform islands, cities and rural ...

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The isekai genre has never experienced a better run, but there aren't many series that have more than a few seasons animated: ...

The pulse nearly throbs at the plump neck of the peacock in Maruyama Okyo’s “Peacock and Peonies” in “Painting Edo: Japanese Art From the Feinberg Collection” at Harvard Art Museums.

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