A picture-perfect village in Japan is staying alive with a population of just one person. Discover the story behind this ...

In the heart of the Japanese mountains, the villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama are home to treasures of traditional ...

The Japan Foundation of New York has awarded a Global Partnership Foundation Grant to Shelburne Craft School to establish a ...

The ancient tradition of “murahachibu,” ostracizing community members as punishment, gets a contemporary twist in Hideo ...

The drumming coming from the island, however, is not from the traditional Japanese taiko but from students ... of three islands that make up Mishima village, along with Takeshima and Kuroshima ...