Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the damaged areas with lacquer dusted or mixed with ...

Beyond the bustling streets of Japan's inner-city metropolis' lies a variety of dramatic, ever-changing landscapes. From ...

Japan, a country of ancient traditions and cutting-edge modernity, might not be the first place that comes to mind when ...

Updated September 13, 2024, by Hamza Haq: The popularization of anime around the world has made Japan one of the major epicenters of culture in recent years. Because of Japanese anime, manga ...

The Kadokawa Cultural Museum, in Tokorozawa city north of Tokyo, fuses museums of art, anime and oddities with a huge, reader ...

Nestled in a quiet corner of New Jersey, well away from the typical Jersey bustle, sits Boukakuan Japanese Tea House in ...

The festival celebrating Japanese pop culture claims to be the only one of its kind in Zimbabwe, bringing together local "Otaku" or fans of animation, comics and video games. "This is my first ...

Otsukimi — the Japanese Moon Viewing Festival — is Cheekwood's annual celebration of Japanese art, gardens and culture.

At Panasonic, only 0.3% of eligible employees take a shorter week. Notorious for a hardworking culture, Japan launched an initiative to help people cut back. But three years into the effort ...

American and Japanese middle and high school students gathered here for a weekend of cultural exchanges and entrepreneurial ...

She had “shaky legs and stomach issues.” She knew she had to quit, but there was one thing in the way: Japan’s notoriously top-down work culture. Asking to leave work on time or taking some ...

Hisako Ueno is a reporter and researcher based in Tokyo, writing on Japanese politics, business, labor, gender and culture. More about Hisako Ueno Yan Zhuang is a Times reporter in Seoul who ...