This stunning sheet of paper was collected by Sir Harry Parkes, British Ambassador to Japan, in 1870. It was one of about 1000 paper items collected as part of an investigation of Japanese ...

KATSUURA, Chiba Prefecture—The Katsuura Big Hina Matsuri is under way here, dazzling tourists with massive displays of around 10,000 “hina” dolls donated from across Japan. The dolls will be ...

A woman in her 70s from Kanagawa Prefecture said that the dolls were amazing, and seemed to have facial expressions. A man from Italy said Japanese tradition is special and very beautiful.

The story of a Japanese student who cleverly submitted a blank sheet of paper for a ninja history assignment may be from 2019 ...

Sporting a white dress and a red headscarf, Japan’s version of a Barbie doll has a new look to battle the stigma of alopecia areata, an intractable immune disease that causes patchy hair loss.

With Navaratri and golu vibes brewing in the city, the Japanese holiday of Hinamatsuri ... Fifteen Hina dolls, made of plastic, paper, and silk and arranged on seven levels, praying for the ...

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 ...

The Japanese education system has often been criticized for heavily valuing scores and rote memorization. Nonetheless, Japanese students have continuously scored above the worldwide average in the ...

This paper explains how to construct the municipality-level panel data in Japan in the period of 1980–2020. Municipal mergers conducted around 2005, which is known as “Great Mergers in the Heisei era, ...

The frost will occur mainly in valley locations. && The Japanese Paper Film Project presents “An Evening of Japanese Paper Films,” a screening of recently preserved 1930s Japanese paper films ...

This collaboration between one of the leading anime publications in Japan in Newtype and one of the biggest anime publications worldwide in Crunchyroll News is a truly collaborative effort aiming ...

Content creators are going viral for renovating abandoned Japanese homes for low prices - but is all as it seems? The Chinese government has been accused of using online nationalism as a useful ...