The dramatic effect that the 1854 opening up of Japan to the world had on Western art and fashion is well known. In fact, Japanese objects had been shown in London as early as 1825, then at the Great ...

In this sweet memoir, McArthur (Confucius) recounts her path from a lonely childhood in coastal Scotland to a respected career as a curator and art historian. The daughter of a Scottish father and ...

HaiFry, a new Osaka-style Japanese restaurant, has opened in Louisville, Kentucky. The restaurant, owned by Toki Masabuchi, features kushikatsu, Japanese curry, and unique chuhai cocktails. HaiFry ...

“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle,” the fourth film in a Japanese epic about a boy avenging his family, is poised to break box-office records when it’s released this month. That should ...

TOKYO — Graphic depictions of enormous phalluses and acrobatic sex positions have long rendered centuries-old Japanese "shunga" art taboo, but a rare exhibition aims to prove the genre is a world ...

Female pleasure instead takes centre stage at the Tokyo exhibition showcasing around 150 pieces of shunga -- an erotic form of "ukiyo-e" drawings and woodblock prints that flourished in Japan's Edo ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) deported six Japanese nationals on Wednesday, September 10, identified as key members of the notorious “JP Dragon” crime syndicate. BI deportation ...

Legendary Capcom developer Hideaki Itsuno, who most recently directed Dragon's Dogma 2 and Devil May Cry 5, has left the company after more than 30 years. Itsuno announced his departure on X/Twitter ...

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In Godzilla #1, the first issue of IDW's new Kai-Sei shared storytelling universe, we met a new kind of Godzilla, Lament, a Kaiju who could speak English. And now with Godzilla #2 out today, we get ...

Plains Art Museum is presenting Floating Beauty: Women in the Art of Ukiyo-e. The exhibition is on view from June 7 to September 28, 2025, in The Museum’s Jane L. Stern Gallery. Heritage Auctions is ...

Stability is a thing of the past at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which this past week fired its director of dance programming, Jane Raleigh, as well as two other full-time dance ...