NAGAHAMA, Shiga -- Production of silk strings for traditional Japanese instruments such as the shamisen and koto is at its ...

“Then why do Japanese people put their hands together in prayer at shrines?” International students also asked many other interesting questions—“What are wabi and sabi?” “Why are all ...

drawing on "minomushi," the Japanese name for bagworms. The company said it plans to invest tens of billions of yen in a bid to boost manufacturing and develop products that take advantage of the silk ...

Malay is a scientist in the research group of Keiji Numata, at the Japanese national research centre RIKEN in Wako near Tokyo, whose work focuses on biopolymers such as spider silk. The group has ...