From 17th century author Ihara Saikaku’s stories to Murakami’s queer characters, that reveal the author as a staunch ally, ...

The Ozawa Brewery is striving to have sake recognized as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Sake, deeply ingrained in Japanese culture, is gaining international popularity alongside global ...

Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than 10,000 liters (2,640 gallons) of the Japanese rice wine that is the product of brewing techniques dating ...

The well-documented history of Asian mass migration to modern Australia dates from the gold rush era in the mid-19th century.

A global conference reflecting on the enduring legacy of ancient wisdom and its relevance in the modern world will be held in ...

The Auxikko pattern was coined from taking inspiration from ancient Japanese Kikkō (hexagonal plates built into Samurai body armor) and auxetics, which are materials engineered to grow strong ...

The annual show featuring the treasures preserved in the Shoso-in Repository in the city showcases 57 items this year, many of which symbolize the glamorous Tenpyo culture that flourished in ...

It guides us all the way from Japan and ... To this day, the ancient capital of Thailand is named Ayutthaya after Ayodhya, Lord Rama’s capital in the great epic poem the Ramayana, while the national ...

Japan has always been a place where the visible and the invisible coexist, and though August is the traditional period here when the worlds of the living and the dead overlap, who’s to say ...

Restoration work at the site of a "key" ancient Egyptian temple is revealing long-hidden colorful details in its decorations. The Temple of Esna, located on the west bank of the Nile over 30 miles ...