They dive as deep as 30 metres to collect abalone, shells and agar-agar. After World War II there were 6109 ama divers in the area; today about 1300 still live and work in the region. "Young women don ...

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 ...

And if you’re feeling adventurous during your trip to Japan, you can always cook at home with seasonal ingredients such as ...

Here and below are some of the Japanese avant-garde designers, photographed for T over the course of a few months, who have ...

Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

A new building inspired by an ancient Japan palace was recently completed here at Manyo Botanical Garden on the grounds of ...

Yesterday, the maison’s current creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, took the house back to where it all began, with a ...

KYOTO—A graduate student at the Tokyo University of the Arts has been selected to play the heroine of this year’s Aoi ...

Historic kimono purveyor Yamato has enlisted its Yamato Lab team and the manufacturers at Tailor Toyo to reinterpret its ...

With roots in the Heian period (794-1185), Ikigai was popularised by the Japanese psychiatrist and academic Mieko Kamiya in her 1966 book, On the Meaning of Life. It translates to “a reason for ...

JTB has forecasted that the total number of Japanese travelers during this coming Golden Week holiday period (April 25 to May 7 2025) will reduce by 6.9% year on year to 23.5 million, and the ...