From the Edo-Tokyo Museum Collection,” is currently touring Japan. We asked the exhibition’s curator, Koyama Shuko, from the ...

There has been an unprecedented boom in the popularity of Japanese castles. According to the Japan Castle Foundation, which ...

Historical anime fans who enjoyed The Apothecary Diaries are spoiled with choice when it comes to other, similar anime of the ...

Jon Woodhouse, who writes regular arts and entertainment articles for The Maui News, is currently traveling in Japan and ...

Chuck Reed travels with a constant companion: a digital, single-lens reflex camera by which he captures beauty, poignant or ...

The victory on a sunny and cool day at the oceanside track north of San Diego capped a sensational season for Thorpedo Anna.

His birth marked the village’s first baby in 20 years, bringing hope to the community. Japan’s ageing population is a growing issue. In 2023, 36.25 million people in Japan were aged 65 and older, ...

People living in a small village in Japan are 'probably outnumbered' by puppets and not just any puppets - life-sized ones. It's reported less than 60 people currently live in the southern village of ...

U.S. couple Dani and Evan Benton, who run a guesthouse and honeybee farm on an island in Japan: “We’re so excited about our ...

Japan: Riding his tricycle with cheerful abandon, Kuranosuke Kato is the only child in his tiny, depopulated Japanese village overrun by life-sized puppets. The two-year-old was the first baby in ...