Manga Kamishibai tells and shows the fascinating history of Japanese paper theater, a lost storytelling form and the link between Edo-era Japanese ukiyo-e prints and modern day manga and television. I ...

Military aircraft are built for the front lines, but few ever achieve the legendary ‘survivor’ status of Bureau Number 2106. This specific Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber managed to live through the ...

Aspiring theater director Mitsunari Kube is ousted from his own troupe. As he wanders the backstreets of Shibuya, he finds a shady-looking theater. Kube gets hired to do lighting at WS Theater.

Kamishibai is Japanese performative paper theater storytelling. The storyteller shows the audience a series of large picture cards telling a tale, dramatically narrating and representing the voices of ...

Susumu Nishiyama shares his experiences while showing a picture depicting a scene near the Nagasaki A-bomb hypocenter, in Fukuoka's Sawara Ward, July 22, 2016. (Mainichi) NAGASAKI -- The anti-war ...

Japanese storytelling is a beautiful amalgamation of art forms that have been developed over the years. These traditions provide a unique insight into the culture and history of the country, with many ...

Kamishibai means “paper drama” in Japanese. This early 20th-century street theatre flourished in Japan during the 1920s and ’30s. Travelling storytellers would draw children in by clapping wooden ...

A scene from the kamishibai play, "The Cloud that Won't Disappear by Kei," provided by Daisaku Yoshimura, depicts burned people on the ground. OSAKA -- In a bid to convey the horror of nuclear weapons ...

Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Pref. – An 87-year-old Japanese woman has been advocating the importance of peace by recounting her harrowing return to Japan from former Manchuria, now northeastern China, ...

Midway on June 4, 1942 was a decisive battle of the Pacific War. Lt. Richard Best is in Squadron Six(VB-6) of the USS Enterprise Air flying an SBD Dauntless bomber. The Americans are going up against ...

Walking into the gallery of the Hoover Tower, I watched kaleidoscopic collections of Japanese propaganda posters unfold before me, luring me in with their weight of history and air of mystery. The ...

TOKYO (TR) – Developing an understanding of the present global financial debacle has perplexed experts and laymen worldwide. One difficulty is that obscure topics like “sub-prime loan” and “sovereign ...