In 2012, the Japanese government named him a Person of Cultural Merit. Anno released a total of nine watercolor picture books on his travel experiences around the world, publishing the first in a ...

Overseas in the United States, the watercolor tutor and artist is known as “Japan’s Bob Ross” among YouTube viewers. Ross was a popular painter who hosted the U.S. TV program “The Joy of ...

when the sight of the moon rising over the swooping eaves of a pagoda looks like an inky Japanese watercolor. Japan and ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...

JOMON (10,000 - 300 B.C.) Prehistoric period of tribal/clan organization. Stone Age hunters and gatherers who make jomon (rope-patterned) pottery inhabit Japan. 660 B.C. Mythological Jimmu ("Divine ...

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Nick writes about economics, financial markets and investing. As James Macintosh of the Wall Street Journal points out, the Japanese equity market indices have almost exactly matched the stellar ...

A deadly knife attack on a Japanese schoolboy in China has stoked frictions between the two countries and raised safety concerns at a time when China is trying to attract foreigners for work and ...

Kyoto, Japan in the spring. Experts say the best time to visit Japan is during the cherry blossom season from late March to mid-May. In Japan, fall foliage stretches late into the year ...

Here's what you need to know Planning a trip to Japan? Here's what you need to know How to plan the ultimate trip to Japan How to plan the ultimate trip to Japan ...

Atlus took a lot of risks veering off the beaten path with Metaphor: ReFantazio but its bold, fantasy-inspired experiment has ...