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.

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 ...

It was one of around 13,000 “blue-eyed dolls” sent to Japan 14 years earlier by a U.S.-based group as a gesture of friendship as relations between the two countries started plummeting ...

What stood out were their looks in bright and vibrant colours, or their makes –some with layers of paper and even wood! Organised by The Japan Foundation that carefully selected 67 dolls for ...