When he opened the store, one of his first three employees was a Japanese man, Hara Kitsue. As Liberty became, as Oscar Wilde ...

With no solid object of fixed colour against which to correlate, "blue" has historically had the capacity to range loosely over the colour spectrum. In the case of Japan, "ao" denoted a range of blue ...

The Floating World” transports visitors to a time when Japan was emerging from the feudal era and modern cities were booming.

The famous wooden bridge depicted in the film adaptation of The Bridge Over The River Kwai was never a real bridge.

Visitors of All Ages are Welcome to a Special Edition of Movies & Bites, Learn the Art of Floral Arrangement, and Experience ...

Once a famous red-light district, the Tokyo ward of Taito is now a quaint and tranquil area, less heavily frequented by ...

Lafcadio Hearn remains popular in his adopted country more than a century after his death, but remains little known in Ireland ...

The overlooked printmaker Blanche Lazzell, of West Virginia, deserves recognition as one of America's first Modernists and ...

Through stylised landscapes, scenes of everyday life and fantastical visions, Hokusai laid the foundations for a modern graphic touch still found in contemporary art far beyond the Nipponese ...

Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...