You can’t see on the outside what’s wrong — trying to portray something invisible was an interesting field of tension for me ...

Through stylised landscapes, scenes of everyday life and fantastical visions, Hokusai laid the foundations for a modern graphic touch still found in contemporary art far beyond the Nipponese shores.

With no solid object of fixed colour against which to correlate, "blue" has historically had the capacity to range loosely over the colour spectrum. In the case of Japan, "ao" denoted a range of blue ...

With all the usual “human problems” in the unending churn of doomy news, wandering through this year’s nature-focused The ...

It's sweltering hot on one of the Showa Coffee House's first days in business at their new home in Glasgow. On the other side of the counter is a man I recognise from social media as Terence Tsao, who ...

With the occasion of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, art galleries and museums throughout the Kansai region held special ...

Japan faces overtourism challenges with 36 million visitors in 2024, raising concerns about two-tier pricing and the ...

Japan faces overtourism challenges with 36 million visitors in 2024, raising concerns about two-tier pricing and the environmental impact on sacred sites like Mount Fuji.

A sturdy steel gate now greets those wishing to climb 3,776-meter Mount Fuji from the fifth station of the Yoshida trail on the Yamanashi Prefecture side of the sacred mountain.

The people of Fujikawaguchiko were tired of tourists trampling over their town for a free view of Mount Fuji, but their anti-tourism measures appear insufficient. Donald Trump's plans could ...

The short climbing season for Mt Fuji in Japan, starts in early July. So when I heard the "easy" trail reopened last week, I got a bus from Tokyo and headed straight there.