Centered around 2000 volunteers, the Kyoto Jidai Matsuri brings to life the rich kimono styles, textiles, and figures of Japanese history.
In an interview, Park Yuha argues that comfort women activism started with good intentions but ignored the universal issue in a rush to hold Japan liable.
Along with thousands of Halloween characters, over 350 policemen were on hand, helping crowds have fun without chaos in the fashionable district of Shibuya.
The often quoted "kill-all order" of Allied prisoners of war from the journal of the Taiwan POW camp headquarters, was nothing of the sort.
These so-called eco-terrorists have a perverted sense of justice. Destroying artworks or otherwise, they cannot be committing crimes to advance their beliefs.
Influenced by Japan, developers across Southeast Asia are asserting their own cultural backgrounds to create experiences that gamers around the world can enjoy.
New Praemium Imperiale Sculpture laureate Ai Weiwei discusses influences on his life and work from poetry and refugees to dictators and free speech.
The quest for historical truth requires healthy debates, not politicizing history and canceling others to silence. True historians do not politicize the past.
Hata provides an objective dissent on orthodox views of comfort women in Korea while also acknowledging the poverty that plagued many Chosun women victims.
Feast your eyes on her gorgeous handicraft, painstakingly sculpted, shaved and etched out of acrylic rods.
Just in time for the Setouchi International Art Triennial, the 100-year-old UOI inn-turned into a perfect otaku guesthouse has reopened for business.
The Praemium Imperiale advisor talks about the role of art in helping us appreciate our common humanity as aggressive nations threaten to drive the world apart.