Every summer, neighborhoods and remote mountain villages across Japan ring with taiko, flute, and shuffling feet. Bon Odori is Japan's quietly extraordinary mass-participation dance: a Buddhist memorial rite turned folk theater and tourism magnet.

A bus has its own itinerary in Japan's Natsuki Ikezawa's "Navidad Incident."

How the Red Cross and other organizations used war brides and the adoption of mixed-race children to fight the Cold War.

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Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are prompting young women to leave rural areas like this for opportunities elsewhere.

Chairperson of “Mori wa Umi no Koibito” (The Forest is the Ocean’s Lover); Oyster farmer; Professor of Field Studies and Practical Learning, Filed Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto Universi...

Politicians in Japan's Diet are still duking out the merits of changing the Meiji-era law forcing joint spousal surnames.

Raoul Peck’s upcoming documentary on South African photographer Ernest Cole distils the life of an artist in exile while interrogating the legacy of apartheid.

Unwed women in China's Canton Delta found autonomy and sisterhood in gupouks, communal homes that emerged in tandem with the industrialization of silk-making.

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Tweet January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1924! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle Directors, Duke Center for the Study of the Public D...

A beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood., Love, Queenie, Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star,...

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Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.

In giving Nihon Hidankyo the Nobel Peace Prize, the committee noted that 'new generations in Japan are carrying forward the experience and the message of the witnesses.'

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SPOOR is a powerful exploration of generational trauma, body horror and transformation, set against the rarely depicted backdrop of South African Indians’ experiences of indentured servitude …

Each year, the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and the University of Maryland Libraries invite applications for grants to support research in the Libraries' Gordon W.