The Japan Equestrian Archery Association will hold a yabusame event in Kamakura on Monday, September 23. Yabusame, part of Japan’s traditional culture, is a practice in which archers shoot through ...

ZUSHI, Japan — It is about as far from the Olympic sport of archery as it can get. The bow is taller than the person shooting it, and, to the uninitiated, it appears lopsided and unbalanced. There are ...

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 ...

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Low-tech stadium space can prove just as striking as the flashiness we’ve grown accustomed to, especially if constructed in the meticulous tradition of Japanese wooden lattice assembly (try finding ...

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. The city announced Tuesday it had ...

TOKYO (Reuters) – South Korea obliterated India 6-0 in the quarterfinals of the men’s team archery event on Monday to advance to the semifinal, where they will face off against host Japan, who had ...

Lancaster’s Casey Kaufhold fell in the round of 16 competition in women’s individual recurve archery in the Tokyo Olympics. The 17-year-old archer lost 6-2 to Japan’s Ren Hayakawa on Tuesday, July 27 ...

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 ...