A foundation dedicated to reviving kyudo — the Japanese martial art of archery — took aim to find a site in Hawaii to build a dojo (training center) and hit its mark.

Pop stars flaunting kimonos and traditional headdresses, overpriced bowls of ramen in hipster restaurants, tattoos of misspelled Japanese charactersall of this hits close to home for me. Growing up in ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. TASHI ARMSTRONG, head instructor for the Maine Heki Ryu School of Japanese ...

The former bow maker to the emperor of Japan is giving a free archery demonstration at Northwest Vista College at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Palmetto Center for the Arts Auditorium Kanjuro Shibata XX, a ...

Buddha has perfect posture, but I’m awkwardly hunched in the earthen alcove we’re sharing. The street lanterns of Yamanouchi, Japan, don’t illuminate much, so I’m grateful for the bulbs of this shrine ...

Crave freelancer Tim Hornyak is the author of "Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots." He has been writing about Japanese culture and technology for a decade. E-mail Tim.

It may take many minutes of preparation yet only seconds to execute, but the perfect shot is worth waiting for in kyudo. The Japanese form of archery is as much about preparing for the shoot as it is ...

After four painful years of training in archery, Herrigel had grown impatient with his lack of progress, and was on the verge of quitting. Four years prior (during the 1920s), Eugen Herrigel, a German ...