From learning to carve woodblocks or make pottery, to observing artisans at work, tourists can help sustain and revive these ...

The country’s objects and ideas, including matcha and emojis, that have had an outsize influence on the world.

Many of us know that Japan took its Buddhism, its urban design, its flower-viewing rites and several of its art forms from China, often by way of Korea. You feel that influence today everywhere from ...