I recently made a video about what a typical Tokyo neighborhood is like and needed a few Japanese related clip art to illustrate what I was talking about. Even more surprising was that everything is ...

“Learning traditional Japanese performing arts makes me feel connected to my own culture,” she said. According to Julie Iezzi, a theater professor at the University of Hawaii who supervised ...

Japan's National Theatre, a base for the traditional performing arts, is in crisis. The sleek theater in central Tokyo closed a year ago for reconstruction. But the process has stalled ...

Georgetown University hosted Seiwa Bunraku, a traditional Japanese puppet theater troupe, for a performance and lecture centered on the art of bunraku in Lohrfink Auditorium on March 21. Georgetown ...

The latest COVID-19 wave has caused so much physical and financial damage to performing arts in Japan that some insiders fear the industry may cease to exist. The number of virus-related ...