From traditional snow country to a hotel staffed by robots, here are five hidden gems that’ll make Japan feel anything but ...

Enjoy a two-day road trip through the colorful autumn scenery of Hyogo Prefecture, exploring its tourist attractions to the ...

Explore art works, paint-smeared palettes, scribbled letters and more... Artists and architects have run the RA for 250 years. Our Collection is a record of them.

Ramapo Mountain State Forest is magical in its own right, but throw in the castle ruins and old-growth trees on this hiking trail and you've got yourself a real fairy tale. If you ask us, New Jersey's ...

Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Japanese art historian Shuji Takashina, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and former director of the National Museum of Western Art, died of heart failure Oct. 17 at his ...

What does a Japanese person recall? Doraemon, the friendly robot helper of an enormously popular eponymous anime series. So goes an anecdote making the rounds in Japanese tech circles. It suggests ...

As search teams combed the ruins of residential buildings across from Rafik Hariri University Hospital just south of Lebanon’s capital, locals listened for signs of their loved ones in the wreckage.

This blanket is so comfortable it’s been dubbed the “blanket that ruins people” because once you’re in it, you won’t want to go anywhere or do anything other than stare at your phone. While it first ...

Many of the fan prints in the Art Institute’s collection survive because they were not mounted on bamboo sticks and thus were never used. Japanese print designs also commonly featured depictions of ...

It was the kind of castle best seen from the outside ... There have been numerous plans for restoration and repurposing of the iconic ruins, but to date, none have broken ground.