AKITA — The Yokote Masuda Manga Museum in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, has an ambition to gather the world’s biggest collection of original drawings and paintings from published manga. The museum in...

Ai Yoda, a company employee in Koto Ward, Tokyo, recently attended a meeting of the Tokyo Kokeshi Tomo no Kai, a friendship organization of people who like kokeshi dolls. Yoda joined the organization ...

This is the third installment of a series. In early December, a counseling session was held for victims of the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake at the Shinonome Jutaku, a 36-story apartment c...

Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968) (see below), a painter known as a cat lover who was active in Paris, said he also liked dogs, according to an article and letters he wrote about 80 years ago that were r...

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Alabama needed it all to win the toughest national title game it had ever played during the Nick Saban dynasty. All of its power. All of its speed. Even one gutsy trick. Der...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Oh Seung Hwan has been such a dominant pitcher in Japan that he has two nicknames: “Fi-nal Boss” and “Stone Buddha.” The St. Louis Cardinals project the Korean with 357 car...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Curry scored 31 points and Draymond Green added 22 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Golden State Warriors to their 36th straight regular-season home win, 111-103 ove...

The term “fukko saigai” (disaster amid reconstruction) was coined in the aftermath of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake. The term is described by an Iwanami Shoten paperback of that title as “re...

It was hardly a coincidence that David Bowie named his greatest hits collection “Changes.” Bowie changed musical styles, fashion, even his name — from David Jones — in a relentless explorati...