Father's Day, which falls on June 15 this year in Japan, is approaching. However, an increasing number of day care centers ...

Matsura: Portraits from the Borderland” exhibition ... as we might translate that to today’s language.” An immigrant from Japan, Matsura traveled to Seattle before landing in Washington ...

but you are still Japanese. We could not trust you.’ With an American flag as a backdrop, a newly drafted George Hirano (left), 18, posed for a portrait with his mother, Hisa Hirano, and father ...

Famed Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami has created artworks, luxury goods with fashion houses like Louis Vuitton ...

“We’ll defeat the Japanese in the end,” said Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, “but we shouldn’t look at the war with them through rose-colored glasses.” Secretary Stimson has had a ...

Faced with marginalization and disinterest, Asian artists living in 1920s and 1930s Paris are now the subject of a major new ...

These moments enrich the portrait with tactical evidence of an ... decides to host close friends at his home in Japan. Here, the chef’s theories about sushi-making as performance are distilled ...

The new 5,000-yen bill portrays educator Umeko Tsuda (1864-1929), who founded one of the first women’s universities in Japan, while the 1,000-yen bill features a pioneering medical scientist ...

TOKYO, July 3 (Reuters) - Japan began circulating its first new banknotes in 20 years on Wednesday, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education ...

According to the National Printing Bureau, the subjects should be well-known to the Japanese people and someone to take pride in. Their portraits need to be rendered as precisely as possible to ...