The Vatican has unveiled a new mascot for the Catholic Church in the hope of engaging young people - a cartoon character ... which is inspired by Japanese culture. He also designed Luce's "pilgrim ...

Japan’s richest man donated $31 million to the study of Japanese humanities at UCLA on Oct. 3. Tadashi Yanai, the president of Japanese retail company Fast Retailing – the parent company of ...

Presumably, someone thought that this Japanese art form needed to be demystified for an American audience, but I was dismayed by the jokey and mechanical treatment of a puppet that, moments before ...

By David Waldstein Masa Kawai wore his faded Yankees cap on Wednesday as he served customers at the Japanese doughnut shop he owns in Edgewater, N.J. It was two days before Game 1 of a World ...

Fans have now been given a first look at the Japanese physical box art for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5 (thanks, Gematsu). If we hear anything about a local physical release, we'll let ...

Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal ...

The artwork of Mister Cartoon can be seen pretty much everywhere — tattooed on celebrities, exhibited in art galleries, airbrushed on cars, painted on public walls and printed on team jerseys.

Ask a cool guy who makes his cool pants. There’s a good chance they’re made by a Japanese brand you’ve never heard of. Even the phrase “Japanese brand” has become synonymous with ...

Many of the fan prints in the Art Institute’s collection survive because they were not mounted on bamboo sticks and thus were never used. Japanese print designs also commonly featured depictions of ...