To borrow a phrase from the Harry Potter franchise, the best anime characters who start out as Muggles but gain magical ...

Shunga as an artform for public display was taboo in Japan until the British Museum ... said Kazutaka Higuchi, a professor of art history at Jumonji University who supervised the Kyoto exhibition.

The Shikoku port city of Takamatsu is often the jumping-off point for the smaller art-laden islands of Naoshima, Teshima and others. Yet Kagawa’s prefectural capital and the rustic castle town ...