Restoration work on a metal artifact found in Berlin, Germany, has revealed it to be an "ornately decorated" Japanese ... In the 19th century, the sword was already an antique and not very ...

In the 19th Century, Japanese people used to carry small objects, such as seals and medicines, in a small lacquered box known as an inro. The inro was attached to the waist via a cord.

Executive producer Marsha Bemko shares her tips for getting the most out of ANTIQUES ROADSHOW. Value can change: The value of an item is dependent upon many things, including the condition of the ...

Did you know? The largest Royal Doulton vase was made in the late 19th Century. It is 6ft 3in high, and sold for over £10,000 in 2011.

The publisher’s Japanese Classics series includes famous works by authors such as Haruki Murakami, and comes with cover illustrations by Yuko Shimizu inspired by classic Japanese artworks All eyes are ...

Ieyasu's family line ruled Japan through the mid-19th century. By the first few decades of the 17th century, Japan had finally achieved an era of relative peace. The samurai had no armies to fight ...

Their solution was to install shoji screens with Japanese washi paper to add privacy yet allow natural light through. “Aesthetically we feel that the washi paper works well with the Mid-Century ...

Japan-U.S. team wins Ig Nobel prize for anal breathing study As sales of Japan temples and shrines surge, a crackdown on bad-faith buyers SUMO/ Onosato wins fall tourney in Tokyo, handing him ...

Last month was the hottest July in Japan in more than a century, according to analysis by The Asahi Shimbun of average temperatures since 1898. The temperature averaged 25.96 degrees for the ...

Sept. 26 (UPI) --An 88-year-old former boxer was acquitted in a rare Japanese retrial Thursday in a 1966 quadruple murder case after spending nearly half a century on death row. The Shizuoka ...