Yasuke depicted in a Japanese children's book by Kurusu Yoshio Almost 500 years ago, a tall African man arrived in Japan. He would go on to become the first foreign-born man to achieve the status ...

Titles: "Mythology" (1940) and "Japanese Children's Favorite Stories" (1953) Number of Pages: 497 in "Mythology" and 112 in "Japanese Children's Favorite Stories" But wait, there's more: Myths from ...

Japanese teenager Rena Kawasaki won this year’s International Children’s Peace Prize on Nov. 14 for her work to get more young people involved in politics, the environment and society.

Japanese animation giant Studio Ghibli is renowned ... may bear the Ghibli name but it is by no means a conventional children's movie. It is harrowing and distinct from its feel-good predecessors ...