After Commodore Matthew Perry visited Japan and cajoled the Tokugawa Shogunate to establish commercial and diplomatic ...

John Westbrooke views a British Museum exhibition of “pictures of the floating world” Looking at Utagawa Hiroshige’s work, ...

Director Nick Ishimaru and crew determined to bring play's surprising blend of cultures back to the Bay. Stephen Sondheim and ...

In Japan, the film has also been received well with a smashing opening. It has beaten Tom Cruise’s previous two releases, Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One.

I glanced around a little longer and was about to leave when the Farben Japans (Colors of Japan) pamphlet first caught my ... of topics like Pure Land Buddhism or the forced opening to trade in 1853, ...

For hundreds of years, Japan was notorious for being closed off to foreigners. The "yokoso" (welcome) sign at Tokyo's Narita Airport is "clearly provisional and time-limited", said Philip Patrick ...

Yumeshima Station, the closest station to the Osaka-Kansai Expo venue, experienced significant congestion with visitors on its opening day ... Station in Osaka, Japan Video Recording Date/Time ...

Japan’s prime minister urged the importance of unity in a world plagued by “divisions” at a futuristic but also tradition-steeped opening ceremony for the World Expo yesterday. Everything ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who once described the trade uncertainties Japan faces as a “national crisis”, said on April 12 during the nationally broadcast Expo opening ceremony ...

Japan's Prime Minister urged the importance of unity in a world plagued by "divisions" at a futuristic but also tradition-steeped opening ceremony for the World Expo on Saturday (April 12 ...