Performers with Sasago Oiwake Puppet Theatre are visiting Iowa from Yamanashi prefecture. That prefecture has been Iowa's ...

Many of the stories are tragic. YOKO SHIOYA: Japanese puppet theater is basically for adults. VANASCO: Yoko Shioya is the artistic director of Japan Society. She says, here, the company is ...

Chloé Viatte Born in Paris. Received a master’s degree in Japanese language and culture at INALCO, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris. Studied for a year in ...

Steam wafts from the big bowl of noodles before me while Yoko Tanaka, the executive director of the Japan America Society of ...

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Born in Osaka some 300 years ago, Japanese puppet theater—Bunraku—is a stunning yet refined spectacle. This program presents the story of Bunraku through two of its greatest masters ...

during the free Indian Dance Showcase Oct. 12 at 3 p.m. The National Theatre from Osaka will perform a traditional work of bunraku Japanese puppet theater, “The Forest by the Tenjin Shrine ...