The composer and saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu is at home in free jazz, classical and art pop. Finally touring North America, ...

All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known worldwide as manga. And all stand on equal ground with the likes of Shohei ...

Kim Foley MacKinnon’s new book “100 Things to Do in Massachusetts Before You Die” offers 100 must-do places to see or ...

TOKYO -- Li Yalin, a 28-year-old second-year master's student at the private Kyoto University of the Arts, moved to Japan in 2019 after earning a degree from a university in China. She was ...

Singapore is now the first country to have an art installation 7,000 metres beneath the ocean. It comprises three metal cubes ...

Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki are all Dodgers. And a Japanese fan base has coalesced around its interest ...

People walk toward the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa ... the 2024 New Year's Day earthquake that rattled central Japan, the city government said Tuesday.

The exhibit showcased the Japanese art of flower arrangement called ikebana. Miyako Ballesteros is a Halifax teacher of the Sogetsu school of the art form who put on the exhibit alongside her ...

Okubo was working on a Federal Arts Project mural in Oakland when Pearl ... Roosevelt issued an executive order forcing 120,000 Japanese Americans to abandon their homes and businesses along ...

Culling ancient works from the Asia Society’s collection, Rina Banerjee, Howardena Pindell, and Byron Kim look to the past to challenge ideas of identity and authenticity.

It is a problem most skiers and snowboarders would pay to have. Japan, long revered as a powder Mecca, has faced a chilling reality in recent years: warming winters, diminished snowfall ...

Ukrainian ballet dancers Nelia Ivanova and Svitlana Shlikhter were deeply moved when the audience gave a standing ovation during their Japan-based troupe’s performance in Latvia, ahead of the ...