Shopping: Artisans across Japan produce a vast range of traditional arts and crafts, including ceramics, lacquerware, ...

Square Enix will sell the Dragon Quest Zipang line of merchandise based on traditional Japanese crafts in late August 2025 in ...

A year after a natural disaster, the resilient artisans of Japan’s Noto Peninsula are forging ahead—with great help from the ...

Japan Traditional Crafts Ginza Artisan Street, hosted by the Association for the Promotion of Traditional Craft Industries, has a history of more than 20 years and continues to grow in scale and ...

Efforts to create a new wave of interest in Japanese art and design in Europe are in full flow as the value of their domestic ...

This episode focuses on new strategies being employed to make traditional Japanese crafts more appealing to a broader range of consumers. *Subtitles and transcripts are available for video ...

Under the new system, visitors from around the world are welcome inside the masters’ studios to observe their work — a rare privilege in Japan’s relatively veiled traditional crafts industry.

She is not alone in looking for help. The prospects for businesses based on traditional Japanese crafts are looking bleak, according to new survey results that suggest the pandemic may erase a ...

Visitors to the Japan Traditional Crafts Artisan Street are invited to discover the beauty of Japanese crafts, meet the artisans who create them, and gain deeper insights into the history and skills ...