A total of about 20,000 "hina" dolls will decorate various locations in this eastern Japan city during the Katsuura Big Hina ...

Japanese doll maker Kyugetsu Co. unveils "hina" dolls of Los Angeles Dodger Shohei Ohtani, Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, table tennis player Hina Hayata, track and field athlete Nozomi Tanaka, ...

The display will continue until March 4. Note: Japanese hina dolls are ornaments for Girls' Day on March 3. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun ...

Fusako Goto was a toddler in Fukuoka, Japan, when she started using chopsticks to eat. At age 65, she now teaches elementary school students in Litchfield how to use the Japanese eating utensils.

KATSUURA, Chiba Prefecture—The Katsuura Big Hina Matsuri is under way here, dazzling tourists with massive displays of around 10,000 “hina” dolls donated from across Japan. The dolls will be ...

Vending machines and traditional wooden kokeshi dolls are both icons of Japanese culture, and a hot spring resort in northeastern Fukushima Prefecture has combined the two. The novelty of being ...