Prized pieces held by the Okada Museum of Art in Japan are being auctioned to settle a $50 million legal bill owed by the ...

The peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji was capped with snow for the first time this winter on Thursday, reaching the milestone 21 ...

The peak of Japan's Mount Fuji was capped with snow for the first time this winter on Thursday, reaching the milestone 21 days later than the average since records began in 1894, the meteorological ...

Japan recorded its highest-ever temperature in August when it reached 41.8 degrees Celsius in the city of Isesaki to the ...

For centuries, the East and West have existed as what seem to be distinct entities — so different in culture and ideology ...

In the rich and varied history of Japanese art, I’d wager the work of Hokusai would be most recognisable to the average ...

This book, from Taschen, looks amazing. Bound in Japanese style, it’s a reproduction of Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, a collection of woodblock prints of which the most famous ...

Every summer, thousands of people gather on the slopes of Mount Fuji and climb skyward to meet the constellations. Sculpted by millennia of eruptions into graceful symmetry, its power is easily ...

The Ringling Museum puts together a show tracing the artistic journey of Yoshida Hiroshi, who reinvented woodblock printing.

The dramatic effect that the 1854 opening up of Japan to the world had on Western art and fashion is well known. In fact, Japanese objects had been shown in London as early as 1825, then at the Great ...