The 3.11 Portrait Project was conceived by photographer Nobuyuki Kobayashi who takes portraits of earthquake survivors in Tohoku, many of whom lost all of their family pictures in the March 11, 2011 ...

The eighth installment of the ACA Cinema Project film series, Family Portrait: Japanese Family in Flux, examines the shifting dynamics and struggles of the Japanese household in contemporary cinema.

Found in the corner of the Arts of Asia Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), the exhibit "New Women for a New Age: Japanese Beauties, 1890s–1930s" went up in December 2016 and will remain on display ...

Among the many service businesses in Japan that have fallen upon hard times due to the coronavirus pandemic are photo portrait studios. Shukan Jitsuwa (Dec. 10) purposely timed an article to be ...

At the entrance to the “Frank S. Matsura: Portraits from the Borderland” exhibition at the High Desert Museum stands an enlarged collection of black-and-white stamp photographs depicting the artist.

Portraits of North Korea's late leaders hang proudly in the classrooms of the Korean High School in Tokyo, where the recent surge in tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme have seen ...

“We’ll defeat the Japanese in the end,” said Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, “but we shouldn’t look at the war with them through rose-colored glasses.” Secretary Stimson has had a record of ...

In Japan, history is still divided according to the reign of the emperors. This year, for instance, is Heisei 26 — the 26th year of the reign of Emperor Akihito, who will be posthumously renamed ...

The best ramen shops in Japan don’t give up their secrets easily. But it’s not necessarily because they’re worried about competitors. “The truth is, they just don’t want people to see that they’re not ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan began circulating its first new banknotes in 20 years on Wednesday, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education institutions in an ...