Tim Anderson’s new book, Hokkaido, is inspired by Japan’s northernmost prefecture, where Western influences and Indigenous ...

Osaka has been one of Japan’s thriving centers of culture and trade. Its strategic location between the calm harbors of Osaka ...

Meet Frenchman Jules Brunet, the real-life last samurai. Fighting alongside the Shogunate rebels who wanted to maintain ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed to prioritize regional development efforts in his first policy speech as the first ...

But the temple sold the artworks after it fell into a state of disrepair following the “haibutsu kishaku” movement to expel Buddhism from Japan following the Meiji Restoration of 1868.

With Japan’s first full-colour film, Carmen Comes Home, screening around the UK, we dive into the luminous world of Japanese colour filmmaking in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Feudal Japan did not know self-propelled steel ships ... rule and reinstating the emperor’s authority by means of what has become known as the Meiji Restoration of 1868. “Meiji” means “enlightened ...

Film festival season has arrived, and film lovers are now converging on Park City, Utah for this year's Sundance Film ...