Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few collectors have enjoyed such a winding journey through the art world as Boston-area private investor Jeffrey Horvitz, whose ...

The West was trending in Japan 150 years ago. That might seem like a silly way to put it, but it’s also true. After two centuries of isolationist policy, Japan was forcibly opened up to foreign ...

Editor’s Note: Emmanuelle de Montgazon is an independent curator and specialist of Japanese art. In Japan, time is not always conceived of in a linear fashion, as it often is in the West. Past, ...

CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL: JAPAN + EAST ASIA Announced At Japan Society Japan Society relaunches a proud tradition with this biennial event, which was last slated to appear in New York in January ...

Through his book “Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity,” Dr. Wei Yu Wayne Tan of the Hope College history faculty seeks to provide a new way of understanding not only ...

Editor’s Note: Artist Takashi Murakami is CNN Style’s latest guest editor. He has commissioned a series of features on identity. Potters in the Japanese town of Shigaraki have been producing sturdy ...

The significance of the Meiji Restoration, an important political period in Japanese history credited for ushering in an era of major political and social change continues to be debated extensively, ...

Modern writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck are well known in American literary circles. These writers are often included in high school English and ...