According to Günter Nitschke in his book about Japanese Gardens, the washitsu emerged alongside the development of the Japanese dry landscape garden during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods.

Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada, two stars of the hit series “Shogun,” discuss history, acting and what they’d bring to the ...

That’s a question Japanese Olympic hopeful Ayumu Saito gets ... Even Saito, who has been a modern pentathlete since she was a fourth grader, thinks the multidiscipline event takes too long ...

The share house market is expanding in Japan amid rising rents for urban dwellings ... Against this backdrop, modern versions of share houses are steadily emerging to change their traditional ...

Takehiro Masutomo explores how Japan’s “Run Ri” migrants—affluent Chinese professionals reshaping cities, schools, and ...

Bix's Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Forecasts, July 31). (Nov.) This immersive account from historian Harris (Sex Workers, Psychics, and Number Runners) revisits the 1984 police slaying ...

Japan is often associated with iconic visuals — from the mighty Mount Fuji and Kyoto’s golden Kinkaku-ji to its anime, manga, and neon-lit cityscapes. But for people who have been here, there’s a ...

Even if you've never seen one of the 30-plus films starring Japan's most iconic kaijū ... beyond the world of filmmaking and asks leading modern artists to interpret the beast from their own ...

Still, given the hand-wringing and self-righteous mudslinging that have accompanied recent Gauguin exhibitions, the time is ripe to ask what we actually know, and how that knowledge should impinge on ...