The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

A photo exhibit featuring traditional Japanese tattoo art, called "American Irezumi" is coming to San Francisco's Main ...

The A-2500 ekranoplan was a marvel of Soviet engineering, designed to carry fighter jets and traverse oceans using ground ...

For centuries, its sleek yet lethal design has held great sway over Westerners’ minds and hearts alike. While most commonly associated with Japanese samurai culture and ancient Japan traditions, its ...

The Maison de la Culture du Japon invites you to come and discover its temporary exhibition free of charge on the occasion of ...

In 1871, a farmer and Civil War veteran from Gorham, Maine, named Horace Wilson, was recruited to teach in Japan as part of ...

The trope of “shared culture” is often posited by well-meaning commentators as a potential basis for peace across the Taiwan ...

The Tanigumi Dance is an important tradition and part of Japan's cultural heritage. For the first time in its 800-year ...

BUT CELEBRATING A culture is different from venerating ... reading the articles in it is to be confronted with Japan’s modern history: the brutality it inflicted upon others; the brutality ...