Japan’s first museum of supernatural monsters opened Friday in Hiroshima Prefecture, allowing visitors to get immersed in a strange world of yokai through historical artifacts ...

The Okinawa International Movie Festival has never been just about movies — or even Okinawa. Held from April 18 to 22, the 11th edition was ...

Snarky Puppy is back with a new album, "Immigrance," and is currently on a world tour. Bassist and band-leader Michael League talks to The Japan ...

Twelve years since its last studio album, The Cinematic Orchestra released "To Believe" in March. Band-leader Jason Swinscoe talks about his writing process and The ...

When I taught at colleges here in the 1980s, I marveled at my students’ freedom, including freedom from study. They could spend most of their ...

‘The Wonderland,” the new film from director Keiichi Hara (“Miss Hokusai”), certainly has the building blocks of something wondrous: a skilled director, top production values, ...

“The Simpsons” are returning to Canada in an upcoming episode that will air on Sunday for a storyline that will feature Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.A ...

George Clinton has packed a lot of funk into his six-decade career.In the 1970s, the American singer rose to fame with Parliament and Funkadelic, sister ...

The recent focus on the vibrant idiosyncratic works of the Edo Period (1603-1868) eccentric painters has left the achievements more traditional masters in neglect. "Road ...

April 27-June 16Finnish artist Rut Bryk (1916-1999) was a pioneer of modern Finnish ceramic art and was particularly well-known for her designs for the ceramics ...

April 27-May 26In 1999, mixed-media artist Tabaimo won the Kirin Contemporary Art Grand Prize award for “Japanese Kitchen,” part of her university graduation project, and ...

April 27-Aug. 25Based in Tokyo and New York, Oscar Oiwa is a Nikkei Brazilian artist who reinterprets aerial and bird’s-eye views of urban landscapes through ...

Walt Disney Co.’s Marvel Studios went to great lengths to keep the plot of the movie “Avengers: Endgame” under wraps until its highly anticipated debut ...

As performers of Shinto theatrical dance age, the Sanriku International Arts festival hopes to encourage youth to help preserve tradition.

If you’re going to see big cartoon characters in an art gallery, the Mori Art Museum (MAM) is a good place to do it.The museum’s ...

Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski is suing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, demanding his reinstatement nearly a year after the organization expelled ...

A long-hidden trove of unpublished works by Franz Kafka could soon be revealed following a decadelong battle over his literary estate that has drawn comparisons ...

Jeff Kingston's "Japan," is a concise, highly readable overview of Japan's political evolution from 1945 to the present, observed from an overarching historical perspective.

The Works by Japanese Women series wraps up by examining the various English translations of two of Japan's greatest works of literature, both penned by ...

Reigning Olympic and former world champion Yuzuru Hanyu delighted fans on Saturday by taking part in a ceremony in his hometown of Sendai to unveil ...