Placido Domingo received a standing ovation as he took to the stage at the Salzburg Festival on Sunday, a concerted show of support at his ...

From Bob Dylan’s first hard-driving blues number at summer camp to the rollicking Rolling Thunder Revue concert tour, the legendary musician’s childhood best friend had ...

Kneeling on the floor of his atelier in the Nagahama district of Hamada, Shimane Prefecture, master craftsman Katsuro Ka-kita applies the finishing touches to one ...

Neil Chapman's passion for scents has taken him all over the world and incited him to write "Perfume," a "scent atlas" that takes the form ...

Sushi master Nick Sakagami presents a beautifully photographed, levelheaded guide to sushi culture and cuisine. Recipes included.

A new resource for visitors and residents, "Plant-based Tokyo" is Momoko Nakamura's bilingual guidebook to 45 vegetarian establishments in the Tokyo area.

Actor Temuera Morrison said playing former Japan coach Eddie Jones in the movie “The Brighton Miracle” — the official trailer of which was released Friday ...

Superhero Black Widow is a woman at the top of her game, and so is the actress who plays her — Scarlett Johansson is the ...

Rescuers have found the body of a Polish celebrity businessman who went missing after falling from his motorboat into a lake, a Polish minister said ...

The sudden Aug. 3 closure of “After ‘Freedom of Expression?'” — a multiartist exhibit at the Aichi Triennale 2019 — clearly highlighted the ongoing struggles ...

Genres never really die, but they often mutate into something different on foreign soil. John Ford’s cowboys became Akira Kurosawa’s samurai, and Kurosawa’s samurai became ...

It has always been a mystery why Summer Sonic is not held in the relative cool of June or July, but at the very height ...

The Japanese film industry has made many musical films, but almost no Hollywood-style musicals. One reason why is Eizo Sugawa’s “You Can Succeed, Too” (1964), ...

The average bride-to-be spends the final days before her wedding fretting about seating plans and whether she’ll be able to squeeze into her dress, but ...

Los Angeles Opera says it will immediately open a ‘thorough and independent investigation’ into allegations of sexual harassment against the opera star Placido Domingo, the ...

The next James Bond film starring Daniel Craig as 007 will be called “No Time To Die” and released in April 2020, the storied franchise ...

Yoshio Toyama and his wife, Keiko, have spent most of their lives as unofficial musical ambassadors between Japan and the American city of New Orleans.In ...

It's 100 years since the Bauhaus art and design school first opened in Weimar, Germany, and the new Muji flagship store in Ginza is as ...

Aug. 28-Nov. 11Inspired by the Latin phrase “Ut pictura poesis” (“as is painting, so is poetry”) used by the Roman poet Horace in “Ars Poetica” ...

Aug. 23-Sept. 29The paintings of Tokyo-based artist Hideki Tarui, a graduate of the Tama Art University, have won various awards, including the 2010 Tokyo Wonder ...