Her Brush is kin with the growing number of women-only presentations that reveal a fact hiding in plain sight­­: great women artists existed everywhere at all times. The political and socio-historic ...

Takeuchi’s meditation on dissident women is at the center of I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, which references these three historical examples, though is ...

THE progress of history has so accelerated that a century now witnesses the profound changes that once took several centuries. This is especially true of the Orient, which until recently stood apart ...

The Kanmuri ruins in the Yoshiwa district in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, generated excitement in 2024 when a stone tool that is likely to be the oldest such artifact in Japan was discovered at ...

Sea Lords were as vital to medieval Japan as samurai, so why were they called “pirates?” For 200 years, Japanese waters were ruled by self-proclaimed Sea Lords. They held immense political power and ...