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Twenty-three Yamahoko floats, known as “moving museums” because of their elaborate decorations, paraded through central Kyoto on Wednesday as a highlight of the annual Gion Festival, one of the three most famous festivals in the nation.
SUMEDANG, Indonesia — “Astroboy” and other manga works have been incorporated into Japanese classes that began in Indonesia last month for university students hoping to work in Japan.
Once an indispensable part of daily life in Japan, washi paper was used for everything, but demand has plunged as lifestyles have become more westernised.
Source: Agence France-Presse Bemused followers of Japan’s foreign minister were left scratching their heads on Tuesday after a bizarre...
Japan has waited more than two centuries for an emperor to abdicate, but the main ceremony to perform the ritual...
With just days until Japan ushers in a new era with the crowning of a new emperor, one entrepreneurial company...
The art of bonsai cannot be learned overnight. It requires years of training, devotion, inexhaustible patience and many ruined trees before anyone gets it right.
In Japan's picturesque Ago Bay, oysters will produce a glistening white pearl from a cultured farming technique invented in Japan that is in decline as experts die out in the ageing country.
Last year, we had missed the cherry blossoms—sakura—completely. We took a trip to Osaka toward the end of April, but the blossoms, we were told, were abloom where we weren’t. Luckily, Osaka had more than enough to offer to make up for unseen blossoms.
A Japanese world record-holder had cut off her 5-foot long hair for the first time ever, as she prepares to...
