The winning design of the Powell Street Festival Society's design competition draws inspiration from traditional Japanese streamers. The competition asked art and architecture students to propose ...

NIIGATA, Japan -- Nishikigoi, Japan's large, colorful carp kept for ornamental purposes, have been gaining fans abroad.

SHANGHAI - China has resumed imports of Japanese koi, removing a ban imposed amid viral disease outbreaks at Japanese fishing farms in 2003, authorities in Shanghai said Tuesday. The first shipment of ...

Drop in for imaginative craft-making based on the Presidio’s natural and cultural heritage. Featuring different crafts every weekend! May 6 + 7 Japanese Carp Kites: During World War II, ...

Transform a toilet paper tube into a high-flying Japanese-style carp windsock, also called a koinobori. Family craft time! Family craft time! Who would have thought that toilet paper would become all ...

The Sheraton Waikiki has some new world-famous residents move in Sunday afternoon. Tamio Mori, the mayor of Nagaoka, Honolulu’s sister city, donated 25 prized nishikigoi, or colorful carp, to live in ...

A religious ceremony in Japan where carp are plied with alcohol before being returned to a river has left animal rights activists feeling green around the gills. The rural festival, held every January ...

You can’t blame Peter Brosius for getting a little nostalgic as he approaches retirement after his 27th season as artistic director at Minneapolis’ Children’s Theatre Company. Brosius came to the Twin ...

Last week, with the U. S. Pacific armada war-gaming nearer Japan than ever before, with U. S. textile men tearing their hair about a Japanese commercial invasion, with William Randolph Hearst pumping ...