To mark the British Council's 90th anniversary, Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day and Online sale (Thursday, 10th ...

Shunga – Japanese erotic art – depicts a world awash with sex. In a famous image, a woman lies on the sea floor ... These gorgeous pictures were created by woodblock print artists and are crafted with ...

inspired by the Japanese woodblock prints the artist had been avidly collecting. Garden with Weeping Tree, Arles (1888) is strikingly soft, juxtaposed by the same tree in Weeping Tree (1889) which is ...

A groundbreaking investigation into the genomes of approximately 3,200 individuals across Japan is reshaping our understanding of the country's ancestry. This study reveals that the genetic ...

TOKYO (AP) — An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -- A regional airport in southwest Japan was closed on Wednesday after a U.S. bombshell, likely dropped during World War Two to stem "kamikaze" attacks, exploded near its runway ...

TOKYO -- Three of Japan's biggest companies -- Panasonic Holdings, Toyota Motor and Bridgestone -- are ending their top-tier sponsorship of the Olympic Games as they rethink the benefits of these ...

Taking over as Japan’s new prime minister after narrowly winning the Liberal Democratic Party leadership, Shigeru Ishiba’s approach to foreign and security policy is likely to include several ...

Thatched roofs were once a common sight in the Japanese countryside, but they started to disappear in the 1950s, when people began migrating en masse to the cities. You can still see them in ...

Tokyo [Japan], October 5 (ANI): Japanese companies currently operational in China are increasingly pulling their operations away from the country, with capital investments of Japan’s subsidiaries in ...

LONDON (Reuters) – A central London playhouse and a theatre from Osaka, Japan, are this month working to prove any cultural differences between the two are superficial. Theatres around the world have ...

Efforts to create a new wave of interest in Japanese art and design in Europe are in full flow as the value of their domestic ...