Ishikawa's subtle adaptation of the Nobel Prize winner's first novel finds resonance and haunting ambiguity in Japan's fading ...

Japan's laws allow the use of copyrighted content to train AI models. Even though artists are worried for their future, some ...

Kanae Collins, a passionate artist and educator, guides students through the intricate world of kanji, the logographic ...

A Walking Memoir, the photographer and essayist chronicles a transformative 300-mile walk through Japan during the Covid ...

Jun Tsuboike But it’s also an opportunity to consider the surprising historical nuances of the martial art. Though people outside Japan tend to regard karate as quintessentially Japanese as ...

One of the oldest geishas still working in Japan, Ikuko Akasaka, 82, has been performing the demanding traditional art—dancing and ... At the same time, Japanese people are living longer ...