Utah's Japanese community as well as Japantown redevelopment plans will be the focuses of Nihon Matsuri, the annual Japan ...

Kumiko emerged in the Asuka era between about 600 and 700 C.E. and eschews nails in favor of perfectly cut pieces that notch ...

In his cozy workshop behind his D.C. home, contemporary kumiko craftsman David Gootnick, a Craft Show featured artist, uses the raw material of his practice: a five-foot-long, two-inch-thick plank of ...

Many of us know that Japan took its Buddhism, its urban design, its flower-viewing rites and several of its art forms from China, often by way of Korea. You feel that influence today everywhere from ...

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

The ancient practice began more than 2,000 years ago, when Japanese monks traveled to China as emissaries and brought ...

Did you know that the literal meaning of Jataka is ‘birth stories’? A fact we know well is that the Jatakas are a body of ...

Traditionally, a Japanese garden has a gate. Boundaries, in general, are very important in a Japanese garden, to symbolize ...

Here’s how to explore the best of Japan’s capital, from summer festivals and less-visited neighborhoods to day trips to World ...

By February, the FBI had arrested about three dozen local Issei whom it had pre-identified as community leaders, among them ...