The “Amano Corpus Animae” exhibition celebrates Amano as a transversal artist whose Japanese style has been infused with ...

Hello Kitty turned 50 on Friday. Befitting a pop icon at midlife, the bubble-headed, bow-wearing character’s fictional ...

That was, in part, the inspiration for “Library Cat,” an art exhibition opening Thursday at Carthage College. Because of the feline/library connection, the art is on display in the college’s ...

In ’74, long before he found fame as a successful writer, author and essayist, Haruki Murakami founded and ran the Tokyo jazz ...

(AP video by Amaranta Marentes) A Hello Kitty figure welcomes visitors at Sanrio Puroland during her 50th birth anniversary celebrations in Tama, a western suburb of Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024 ...

Tove Jansson: Paradise' at the Helsinki Art Museum (HAM) marks the first time that Jansson’s public paintings have been collectively displayed. Although Jansson, who died in 2001, is best known ...

The Japanese electorate appeared to punish the Liberal Democrats, leaving it unclear whether the party would be forced to expand its coalition to stay in power. By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and ...

It has, after all, been just eight years since plastic-eating microbes were first discovered, in Japan. In 2016, researchers from the Kyoto Institute of Technology and Keio University, in Japan ...

By David Waldstein Masa Kawai wore his faded Yankees cap on Wednesday as he served customers at the Japanese doughnut shop he owns in Edgewater, N.J. It was two days before Game 1 of a World ...

You might think all cat litters are the same, but after testing out close to a dozen formulas, I can assure you they’re not. The best cat litters clump quickly and neutralize unpleasant odors ...

Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Japanese art historian Shuji Takashina, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and former director of the National Museum of Western Art, died of heart failure Oct. 17 at his ...

The au Jibun Bank flash Japan manufacturing purchasing managers' index declined to 49.0 in October from 49.7 in September. The index stayed below the 50.0 threshold separating growth from ...