A building believed to be a "hoanden," a small shrinelike structure used to house portraits of emperors and the nationalistic ...

GIFU, Japan -- Indoor tiles made in central Japan are seeing a surge in popularity overseas, as buyers in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East prize the ceramics for their artistry that ...

It also required importing vast amounts of resources: soil, stone, lumber, thatch, kilns for baking roof tiles, charcoal, and the like ... The ruling elites, Buddhist and Shinto clergy, and commoner ...

The haikuist shared a haiku during “an awful week for my people.” Satoru Kanematsu shuddered at the news of the Israel-Gaza war. Murasaki Sagano flinched at the sound of firework missiles over ...