Katsuo-ji offers visitors two different types of Darumas: the Kachi-Daruma, the classic doll known as “the winning Daruma” ...

Have you ever wondered why Japanese students excel in academics and problem-solving? It’s not just about studying harder—it’s about studying smarter. Japanese learning methods focus on long-term ...

In this week's issue of our environmental newsletter, we talk to companies who say their robots will be essential to grow ...

The University of Prince Edward Island is backing away from a demand that an artist in residence take down a painting that ...

The exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum features objects from Queen Elizabeth II, Grace Kelly, Jackie Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Wallis Simpson, Barbara Hutton, Daisy Fellowes and Tyler, the ...

Spokeo examined State Symbols USA and other resources to explore why state seals are significant and how they help us ...

Japanese director Soda Kazuhiro has made documentaries about fishing villages and the impact of modernisation. This time he's focusing on a pack of entitled cats, and what they can tell us about the ...

One theory points to the festival of Eostre, a pagan tradition of carrying baskets of young seedlings or eggs as an offering ...

The beauty of albino children is portrayed through artwork that raises a question about the future of humanity during "Quantum Lightborn: The Future Of Luminance", which is running at Fashion Gallery, ...

For the Japanese, summer is when the border between the real world and the spirit world becomes weak, and the legendary yōkai ...

Shinto, an ethnic faith of the Japanese, is grounded in an animist belief that kami (wraiths) reside in natural phenomena—mountains, trees, rivers, wind, thunder, animals—and that the spirits ...