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Here's what to expect on MSI's booth in the COMPUTEX 2025 event starting next week, which includes several new additions ...
This is the second installment in a three-part series about what roles women born into the Imperial family should play in the ...
Wajima, a picturesque tourist town in Japan, is facing significant devastation following the country's strongest earthquake ...
In Kanazawa it’s clear the city is no stranger to visitors. Several hours north of Kyoto and touted as Japan’s “next big ...
Not too thick, not too thin.” Kohei Maeda, 38, applies lacquer with a brush, keeping a sharp eye on the object’s surface to ...
The first part of a collection of Indian and Islamic art from a Kidderminster vendor sold for £10,000, with another 50 lots ...
National Gallery Singapore’s “City of Others” is an ambitious “remapping” of Paris – plotted across its three galleries are ...
Kintsugi is a centuries-old traditional Japanese art form of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold, ...
Two seasoned trip planners on how to best tour the Golden Route through five cities, including Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka.
In Japan, interest rates are set by the Bank of Japan's Policy Board in its Monetary Policy Meetings. The BoJ's official interest rate is the discount rate. Monetary Policy Meetings produce a ...
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art showcases the longtime cultural meaning in the practice of chanoyu ...
Japanese lacquer must have seemed a miraculous material to sixteenth-century Europeans. Impervious to liquids, resistant to heat, reflecting light and decorated in vibrant colours – there was nothing ...