These special techniques highlight the skill, patience, and artistry involved in traditional Japanese joinery, resulting in connections that are as strong as they are beautiful.

Traditional carpentry employs wooden joinery in furnishings to fit pieces of wood together without use of metal nails. Artisans breathe new life into the wood, imbuing a Kyoto aesthetic as they work.

Masters of joinery have developed ingenious ways to assemble pieces of wood, with perhaps the most legendary examples coming ...

I'd seen Japanese joinery bed frames – or bed frames that slot together without screws and tools — gaining popularity, but most, like the internet-favorite one sold by Thuma, were expensive.

Marriage report example documents provided by municipal governments often showed a bias toward choosing the husband’s surname, a new study has found. Married couples in Japan are legally ...

The largest components slot together—intersecting and locking at each leg—using a Japanese joinery technique that secures wood pieces with only tension and friction. Since there’s no need ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

These universities in Japan have been numerically ranked based on their positions in the overall Best Global Universities rankings. Schools were evaluated based on their research performance and ...

For example, when a half black Japanese woman was crowned Miss Japan in 2015, she was berated in online comments as unfit to represent the country. Tennis champion Naomi Osaka has a Japanese ...

OMACHI, Nagano Prefecture--The Japanese wolf, a species thought to have gone extinct more than a century ago, may still roam the rugged mountain terrain of central Japan--but finding solid proof ...