A new exhibition at Zürich’s Museum for Design showcases more than six decades of Japanese poster art, exploring changing aesthetics and attitudes ... A consumerist boom in the 1980s saw another new ...

To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. This major new volume presents innovative recent scholarship on Japan's modern ...

The conflict resulted in the Taira rising to power to form the first samurai-led government in the history of Japan. In 1180, the Minamoto clan resumed hostilities with the Taira in what became ...

Legends surrounding the founding of Japan are compiled as history in the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) and the Nihon shoki (Chronicle of Japan). With the adoption of Buddhism as the state ...

Milky white or in pastel hues, pearls have been rediscovered by fashion and jewellery designers ... when he set up as a pearl farmer in Kobe, on Japan's Osaka Bay. He specialised in Akoya pearls ...

Fashion describes the items and styles of clothing worn during a particular period of history. Historical and cultural fashions are sometimes called costumes. For centuries clothes have been used ...

Could Japanese women’s wrestling become fashion and beauty’s new favourite sport ... where it’s skits of them yelling into a mic. We want it to be more about the history of the performers, their ...

For the first time, Sebastian Masuda will visit Montreal and Toronto to give you insight on the history of Japanese street fashion and his involvement in the kawaii movement. Now, the word kawaii ...

For hundreds of years, samurai, a class of elite warriors, shaped Japanese history, and tales of their exploits and adventures remain the stuff of legends. One of the most fascinating and ...

Sourdough may have been the star of the stay-at-home years, but if you're a carb lover in America, recent history has been ...

Imaging Japanese History is an online curriculum designed to enhance students' visual literacy skills, historical thinking skills, and knowledge of Japanese history. Five online modules each provide a ...

In honor of HIV/AIDS Awareness month, Phillip Picardi speaks to 25 fashion luminaries, including Marc Jacobs, Bethann Hardison, and Ralph Lauren—to highlight a previously untold history of the ...