Recent graduates have gone on to doctoral study in Japanese literature, religion, history, and art history at institutions such as Harvard, Yale, UCLA, UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan, the ...

Japan also exerts enormous "soft power" though the borderless appeal of its anime, manga, film, and literature. Focus: The BA (major) in Japanese Studies gives you the linguistic and cultural fluency ...

The Texts and Contexts: Teaching Japan through Children’s Literature online curriculum is a collection of teacher-developed, standards-based, cross-curricular K-6 lessons. The collection is designed ...

Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami” at Gagosian’s Mayfair branch in London showcases the Japanese polymathic artist in remix mode as he updates important pieces from his country’s artistic ...

Japan's century-old Mingei, or folk art, movement celebrates the everyday work of anonymous artists. It stands in contrast to both fine arts and industrially mass-produced goods. And it's having a yet ...

Angles' lifelong interest in Japan and Japanese literature began when he went to southwestern Japan ... earned grants from the PEN America and the National Endowment for the Arts, including his most ...

(Japanese original by Akihiro Ogomori, Photo and Video Department) Soft light filters onto a staircase at the Odawara Literature Museum in the Kanagawa Prefecture city of Odawara on June 20 ...

Kanagawa -- A Western style building constructed near Sagami Bay in this east Japan city in 1937 was a vacation home of a Meiji period (1868-1912) minister, and now serves as a literature museum ...