From the man-eating Yamata no Orochi to slithering gods, snakes have been a part of Japan’s culture and belief system since ancient times. An expert on Japanese mythology looks at how serpents ...

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There’s the adaptable Kensei, a solid all-round samurai warrior who decimates their foes with a nodachi sword; or the Orochi, an assassin who has mastered the art of counter-attacking with a katana.

Yaegaki Shrine has a key role in one of the most well-known Japanese myths. A couple with eight children pleaded with Susanoo, a powerful deity, to save their last remaining child from the fearsome ...

The Japanese market has grown 11 percent since 2019, outperforming the global market’s modest 1 percent growth.

Before Marie Kondo stormed into the global consciousness, Hideko Yamashita taught Japan the art of creating tidier spaces.

The art year 2025 in Tokyo is looking packed, with a hefty slate of exhibitions and events highlighting everything from cutting-edge contemporary art to thousand-year old treasures. The visionary ...

By Will Heinrich “Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment of Japanese ... Des Moines Art Center to ...

It has been an unusual year, to say the least, but in one respect, it is business as usual: the art world is still no stranger to legal disputes and its share of controversies. Here are the seven ...

In January, a Japanese author admitted ... the restitution of art confiscated by the Nazis in Germany before or during World War II — had made “little or no progress.” Among the most ...