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Often overshadowed by its neighbour Yogyakarta, Surakarta – commonly known as Solo – is a treasure trove of Javanese culture and history. This city offers a more relaxed pace, allowing travellers to ...

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I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

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These initiatives augment and complement the University’s academic programmes and act as a unique bridge to industries ... of its past as a gateway to Edo (now known as Tokyo) and a history of ...

Floating world: Hiroshige’s Seba from The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Highway (1830s) - The Trustees of the British ...

As Japan's second-largest city ... Be prepared to travel from ancient times with stone tools and pottery, to the vibrant Edo period, represented by ukiyo-e (woodblock prints). These prints tell vivid ...

If anyone was wondering what Chinese troops and armored vehicles disembarking onto Taiwan’s shores could potentially look like, then footage of drills in China’s southern Guangdong province ...

Oluwaseun Olayiwola is a poet, critic and inaugural member of the Rose Choreographic School in Sadlers Wells East, London.