A new book published by Never Sleep chronicles the story of J-core, Japan’s hardcore techno scene. Manga Corps delves deep into the visual culture of the subculture, featuring an extensive archive of ...

Richard Avedon’s iconic portraits and a broad survey of Asian American art offer varied perspectives on the region.

How shared backgrounds among policy elites powered the economic rise of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China.

X-ELIO has completed the commissioning of its 14 MW Funaki PV Solar Plant in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

Japanese philanthropy has fallen behind. Can it catch up? Haruto Okabe Japan’s economy is the fourth-largest in the world, yet it ranks near the bottom of the World Giving Index. Why? For decades, ...

Three artists, three completely different approaches, but the same observation: on the international art market, the young Japanese art scene is currently brighter than it has been for a long while: ...

A great exchange rate, ChatGPT, and kimono-wearing bros have turned Kyoto into the loveliest tourist trap on earth.

Anna Wintour is shifting away from the day-to-day editing of American Vogue magazine after 37 years to focus on her global roles overseeing editorial for all of the Vogue magazines and as chief ...

This repo contains an OCR system for converting modern Japanese images to text. The software has been developed by Dr. Anh Duc Le, while he was working for ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the ...