Moon Equipment made hundreds of such speed parts. The company was started by American hot rodder Dean Moon in the 1950s, but ...

Pictures of Belonging at the Smithsonian American Art Museum spotlights Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, three ...

The Jomon era is one of the oldest known periods of civilization in Japan. Discover how these early people expressed their ...

Today, that cultural curiosity has grown deeper, moving into the world of traditional art forms. One such art form — Rakugo, a classic style of Japanese storytelling — came to Chennai on Sunday.

When you first see a Japanese Bobtail, it’s hard not to smile. There’s something about that iconic little pom-pom tail—like the end of a paintbrush dipped in white—that instantly charms you. But ...

Enter the Cleve Carney Museum of Art this summer and you might imagine yourself in the Japanese city of Edo before it was renamed Tokyo in 1868. The exhibition “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World” ...

We know how we feel about Takashi Murakami's "Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow" exhibition at Cleveland Museum of Art, on view through September 7. But we strolled through the gallery (and social ...

Fireflies. Image by kiwi616 via Pixabay. The poetic image of fireflies guiding souls has inspired countless works of Japanese art and literature throughout history. In classical Japanese poetry, ...

Inside the foundry forging $15,000 artisanal samurai swords It can take more than a year to make a single razor-sharp katana. In Japan, business is booming for the few remaining smiths who know ...

College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn new exhibit, “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World,” has art never before been seen in the U.S.

Tadao Ando, the acclaimed Japanese architect renowned for his masterful use of concrete, light and space, has unveiled his latest creation on Naoshima Island: the Naoshima New Museum of Art.

'Hokusai and Ukiyo-e' exhibit at Cleve Carney Museum of Art dives into Japan's Edo period Centered on the extraordinary appeal of “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” by Katsushika Hokusai, this ...