“I’m holding an illustrated book of cheeses,” says a delighted Tomoyo Ozumi, a customer at a growing kind of bookshop in ...

Regular bookstores sell books that are popular... while excluding books that don’t sell well,” said one shop owner. “We ...

Japanese art was all around me while traveling through Kyoto and Tokyo in Japan. One of the reasons I started Passport by Design was because I saw such a connection between travel and art. Traveling ...

His shop, measuring just 53 square metres, houses 364 shelves, selling books – some new, some used – on everything from ...

There's an under-the-radar canal city in Japan that's often compared to Venice. Here's what you should know about the hidden ...

A new Chobits figure of protagonist Chi is now available for pre-order from AmiAmi, and will release in Japan on May 2025.

Below, hear Delphine Hirasuna, author of The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946 and curator of the traveling exhibit of the same name, talk about ...

With an Election Day docking, the cargo ship will deliver 3 tons of supplies and equipment, including an unusual wooden ...

Nakama means friendship in Japanese and the husband and wife team that has run this Logan Square store since 2014 tries ... Sox and Museum of Contemporary Art, on special products.

I’m a correspondent covering Japan. Here are five mostly Japan-related items I’ve loved seeing, reading and listening to.

The proposed mural on Bass Street in Moline has an artist. The Moline Public Art Commission and Quad City Arts have chosen ...

The Milwaukee Art Museum has announced that it will double the size of its museum store and the larger space will allow the ...