But they don't have what he's looking for: the centuries-old Japanese art of tebori, or traditional "hand-carved" tattoos. In the West, a longstanding fascination with this style has become a full ...

A centuries-old Japanese art is set to revolutionize the manufacturing industry with origami printing. Origami is more than a hobby in the engineering world. Illustration by dzianis, Shutterstock ...

A simple request to examine a centuries-old artwork led to a stunning discovery: the paintings on “fusuma” sliding doors ...

For a long while, there was an industry in Japan called Nihonjin-ron: a multimillion-dollar traffic in theories of the Japanese ... style. Thus, rakugo is the art of storytelling. In this art, what is ...

To delve deeper into this unique art, we talked with lifelong sashiko artisan Atsushi Futatsuya. To learn more about Japanese shashiko, read: The 300-year-old Japanese method of upcycling Video ...

A tour of some of the nation’s elegant institutions, including the Enoura Observatory and the Chichu Art Museum, reveals an ...

Striving to be unique, it is bringing attention to artists from around the world whose works have rarely been seen in Japan.

For Street Fighter 2's U.S. releases, Capcom USA's marketing department followed the trend of the time by Americanizing the original Japanese art style ... It's something my old colleagues ...

Japan’s regional economies are facing severe labor shortages. Their survival depends on their ability to persuade foreign ...

BEIJING -- A 10-year-old Japanese student who was stabbed near his school in southern China has died, officials in Tokyo said Thursday, asking Beijing to provide details of the stabbing and take ...

So, when Nintendo recently announced the opening of a new museum in Kyoto, Japan, it’s fair to say it was met with some ...