The country has reached back more than a thousand years into its early literary heritage for an auspicious name for a new era under a new emperor.
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Murasaki Shikibu, the author of The Tale of Genji, served in the Japanese imperial court. She transformed her experiences into an intricate narrative fusing fiction, history, and poetry.
Monster movies are currently rampaging across the globe. Their popularity shows us how Hollywood’s place in world cinema is changing.
US-Japan relations are under pressure. As leaders of the two countries meet this week, a scholar tells the story of the exchange program that made such a difference to American attitudes toward Japan.
The curse of the tattooed ex was well-known in 18th-century Japan.
Coming on the heels of ‘gold’, ‘blond’ and ‘wealthy’, ‘north’ is a telling symbol of how Japan saw 2017.
It’s a multi-lingual effect.
Court ruling casts shadow on Japan’s tattoo industry.
In Japanese popular culture, new trends come and go. But the Japanese have toyed with gender norms for generations.
Japanese tattoos have been popular in the UK since King George V. But things are different in Japan.
The film is a powerful reworking of the novel by Japanese novelist Endō Shūsaku.
In a country known for its eccentric tastes, is this simply another flash-in-the-pan fad?
A push for Japanese higher education to be globally competitive is creating an identity crisis.
Miranda Kerr sparked controversy last week when she appeared in Japanese Vogue dressed in a kimono. Critics in the blogosphere and The New York Daily News wondered whether her donning traditional Japanese…
Theatre of dreams, theatre of play opened this week at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), a new exhibit giving a fascinating glimpse into one of Japan’s great theatrical traditions nō (Noh) through…
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