Time seems to stop at Eiko Araki’s studio in Japan. Women sit around her in a small circle, painstakingly stitching intricate patterns on balls the size of an orange. They are keeping alive an ancient ...

They are keeping alive an ancient Japanese craft called temari. Each ball, or temari, is a work of art, with colorful geometric patterns. They’re destined to be heirlooms, or treasured works of ...

Yoshie Nakamura, who promotes Japanese handcrafted art in her duty-free shop at Tokyo’s Haneda airport, says she features temari there because of its intricate and delicate designs.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has posted a trade deficit for a second straight month, as both exports and imports were lower than expected. The Finance Ministry said Japan’s trade deficit totaled 695 ...

The Kadokawa Cultural Museum, in Tokorozawa city north of Tokyo, fuses museums of art, anime and oddities with a huge, reader ...

Sora, a talented Japanese shodo artist, is celebrating Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani’s historic 50-50 season with a piece of art ...