Though best known for its green tea, Yame is also home to an extraordinary concentration of traditional crafts and cultural preservation, and it provides an exceptional context in which to practice ...

A steady stream of people lined up at California's newest Daiso store to shop its discount line of popular products from ...

This episode focuses on new strategies being employed to make traditional Japanese crafts more appealing to a broader range of consumers. *Subtitles and transcripts are available for video ...

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As production of Japan’s traditional craft works goes into decline because of diminishing spending power in their home market, moves are under way to lure foreign buyers by sparking a renewed ...

There’s a delightfully unexpected story behind UNIQLO’s iconic name. It was born from a little error. “When we were ...

most beloved but dying craft traditions. This spring, Bizen ware pottery from Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, was displayed at international design exhibitions in Italy and France, with support ...

An art show melding Japanese traditional crafts with the beloved characters of the Pokémon franchise has made its way to Tokyo at last. See the monsters as never before at this show, held at ...

With most of the population gone, residents of one village in Japan have come up with a novel plan to make it less lonely — replacing people with puppets. Fewer than 60 people live in Ichinono, and ...

“We’re now paying the price,” she added. Japan has the highest percentage of people ages 65 and over in the world, according to data released last month by the country’s statistics bureau ...

This will not be the first time this exhibition appeared, though. Japan House Los Angeles held an event with the same title and displayed works from late July 2023 until early January 2024.

(JGSDF) Japan's Naikai Shipbuilding has launched the first ship in a new class of landing craft utility (LCU) vessels that will be used to bolster its armed forces' interisland mobility.