Forty-one ritual folk dances from around Japan were added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity List in 2022. The Kuta Hanagasa Dance is performed in a rural community in the very ...

19, the mood of the 36,000 fans filling the stands of Sapporo Dome was exuberant and upbeat, thanks to the catchy "Fox Dance" popularized ... duo had been obscure in Japan until Saori Ogure ...

“Learning their skills is fascinating.” The school is one of many that have popped up around Japan and emphasize dance moves and music from South Korea. On one evening in mid ...

“Crazy things were happening — war, inflation. I couldn’t dance,” he tells The Japan Times. “I’d go out and all I could think about was war.” So instead of club beats, he turned inward.

Japan's national champion Utana Yoshida and Masaya Morita claimed the gold medal in ice dance, while Uzbekistan's Ekaterina Geynish and Dmitriy Chigirev triumphed in pair skating at the Asian ...