For at least a year, Japanese authorities have been vying for a bigger spot in the booming international art market. They have worked to make it easier for galleries to transact at art fairs and free ...

In Japan, calligraphy is more than just writing—it’s an art form that requires patience, focus, and respect for tradition.

It’s a chilly evening in Emeryville, where half-a-dozen martial arts students at a community center are practicing with katana. They kneel, jump and slash, then slowly mimic wiping blood off their ...

At the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, the exhibition “Forgotten but Once Known: Signs of Women’s Labor in ...