The current global pandemic has greatly altered life as we know it, and practically every industry has been affected. Some clear cases are tourism and...
Out of the way and nestled in the foothill forests of the Shima peninsula, Ise is home to the inner and outer Ise shrines. An...
Sometime in late last year, somewhere in Hubei Province in central China, probably in the city of Wuhan, a spiked virus measuring nanometers in...
Human rights in Asia, highlighted in the 2019 coverage of the treatment of Uighurs and democracy protests in Hong Kong, have been overwhelmed this year...
Kanazawa University has bestowed on professor Michiko Yusa of Western Washington University the 2nd Kanazawa University International Award in Commemoration of Daisetz T. Suzuki and...
Many visitors to Japan make it a point to see Kyoto and Tokyo. But just next door to Osaka, not far from Kyoto and an...
Seated Nyoirin Kannon (Important Cultural Property), Heian period, 10th century. An impressive collection of treasures titled Daigoji Temple: A Shingon Esoteric Buddhist...
Luca Vogel Due to its curved geographical shape and chains of mountains separating its regions, Japan is, culturally-speaking, quite diverse. There are many...
Three years ago, Touken Ranbu, an online game with personified legendary sword characters, kindled the Japanese sword trend, but the craze is even bigger...
The cremated remains of 10 bodies from North Korea, which washed ashore along the coastline of Akita Prefecture,- between November and December 2017, are being...