Activities to keep the kids animated
Have a young budding animation director on your hands? "The Science Behind Pixar" exhibition takes kids (and so-inclined adults) through the process from modeling and rigging to simulation and rendering.
Crafts that connect food and the table: Glassware glinting with light
Glassmaker Kiyoharu Matsuda is renowned for his high technical standards and the timeless design of his products.
Debate over Western tastes in the traditional Japanese tea bowl brews overseas
The Japanese tea bowl has inspired a number of Western potters to produce their own interpretations in recent decades — but to mixed reactions from artists and experts.
Crafts that connect food and the table: From the studio of Jissei Omine
What better way to serve the foods of Okinawa than in locally made vessels such as pottery crafted from Okinawan clay and glassware bubbled with Okinawan air. Let's meet the hottest of the islands' ceramic and glass artists working today.
Goldfish began as a rare luxury, but had become popular pets by the mid-Edo Period (1603-1868).
As yukata (light cotton kimono) became common streetwear among Edoites, cotton tenugui hand towels likewise became a fashionable "must" accessory.
H.C. Andersen Park: Once upon a time, in a land not so far away
Take the kids on a fairy-tale trip to H.C. Andersen Park in Chiba Prefecture, where Denmark's most celebrated writer lives on in playgrounds, workshops and recreations of Danish village life.
Japanese city struggles as its World Heritage sheen fades
Drastic drops in the number of visitors to the Tomioka Silk Mill, a designated World Heritage Site in Gunma Prefecture, leaves citizens looking to find new ways to boost tourism.
There’s no doubt about it — a colorful yukata (light cotton kimono) accessorized with a flat uchiwa fan says “summer.”
The art of dressing up as characters from anime, manga, video games or TV shows has evolved into a global phenomenon.
The first of a four-part series that focuses on traditional ways to mitigate the heat of a Japanese summer.
What is the role of small towns in Japan?
Kiryu in Gunma Prefecture looks into potential ways art could help revitalize the small town.
