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Kintsugi, the centuries-old Japanese pottery repair technique, turns broken ceramics into art using gold and lacquer while ...

I’m on its 12-Day Spring Gardens, Culture and History of Japan and South Korea by Small Ship itinerary. Ponds in Ritsurin ...

We select the machines we reckon are the most important and finest examples from the Land of the Rising Sun ...

Scholars expressed amazement at the discovery of three letters written in the hand of Julia Otaa, a Korean woman who rose to high rank in 17th century Japan only to earn the moniker of “tragic ...

Let's get nuts (about old Batman video games) ...

As the famed world of Mortal Kombat returns to the big screens this week, the expectations have been higher than ever, to present a worthy show to the audience. With the addition of Karl Urban as ...

Kintsugi is a Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum ...

As Japanese as a Geisha cutting a sushi roll with a samurai sword, gyotaku is infused with all the lovely idiosyncrasies of ...

Kagurazaka is a central Tokyo neighborhood with refined charm that was once located on the edge of Edo Castle and has connections dating back to Japan’s third “great unifier” and shogun, Ieyasu ...

One of Japan's most in-demand ​graphic designers is neither hip nor an artist by training: he’s a septuagenarian security ...

Heavy hangs the head that wears the crown - or in this case, the samurai topknot - in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s absorbing, ...