Despite COVID-19, the new “living laboratory” smart city project broke ground right on schedule, in full view of Mount Fuji, under the watchful eyes of Toyota...
I would like to introduce you to some of Hokusai’s illustrated books, which are known to painters, but rarely introduced to a wider audience despite the...
Speaking of mysteries, in addition to giant sardines and rare shark species, the tectonic plates are under stress at this deep sea site near the center...
~~ A magnificent sunset sinks behind Mount Fuji. The two “number ones in Japan” become silhouettes and merge over the orange canvas. ...
(Part 12 of a Series) Continuing from my previous article, I would like to talk about the short story Musashino by the writer Kunikida...
Feature image: Mountain Climbers (1833) by Katsushika Hokusai Part 4 of a series marking the artist’s 260th anniversary Other parts of the series: Introduction to a...
Feature Photo: Katsushika Hokusai, “Under the Wave off Kanagawa” from the series The Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, circa 1830-1832, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...
A working committee of the Japanese government’s Central Disaster Management Council, chaired by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, released a report on March 31 on the...
When you think of a famous mountain in Japan, which one comes to mind? The answer is, almost universally, Mount Fuji, and perhaps rightly so. Japan,...
In 1970, the American government returned a collection of 153 paintings that had been deemed problematic to Japan. Technically only on loan, they remain...
When you think of Japan, what comes to mind? Thousands of people scrambling across Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo? The beautiful temples and shrines in Kyoto?...
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