The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

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Years ago, the buzzword term "Yongzheng so busy" was invented to echo a pop culture moment in which Emperor Yongzheng of the ...

Yeon Shim Chung, Doryun Chong, Kyung An, Lee Ufan, and Andrew Russeth explore how four influential artists helped shape modern Korea’s identity through their art and correspondence during a period of ...

NARA—The Nara National Museum has unveiled the details of its first full-scale exhibition devoted to national treasures, which will bring together Japan’s finest works of Buddhist art next ...

It will celebrate the centenary of the Mont Joly refuge hut, host mountaineering courses for novices, and throughout the summer period, art and exhibitions will literally live the high life across ...

The city, with its colonial-era Art Deco buildings surrounding a market, a football stadium and places of worship, sits on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. The country has been home to bouts of ...