Child Kabuki actors go through a difficult transitional ... In some scenes, ropes are used so actors “fly” above the spectators. Although Japan has been known for discriminatory attitudes ...

As such, this article was updated to include even more of Japan's most incredible actors of all time. Matinée idol Kazuo Hasegawa began his career performing in kabuki theater before entering the ...

The annual event began in 1980 to give promising, younger actors a chance to perform in some of the most coveted roles in the repertoire, which are usually played by kabuki’s biggest names in ...

In the Hawaiian Islands, where many Japanese people had immigrated since the Meiji Era (1868-1912), a unique, localized form of Kabuki has been developing for more than a century. Hawaiian Kabuki ...

Japan's oldest existing playhouse built in the Edo period (1603-1867) in this town in the western part of the country still stages･･･ ...

But while it’s common for Japanese movie theaters to sell memorabilia at gift ... First, the most famous and successful kabuki actors who play female characters (who are called onnagata), tend to ...

Her father is a legendary Kabuki actor who has been designated a living national treasure by the Japanese government. Her younger brother is also a Kabuki performer. Terajima herself is a world ...

This is a photograph of the popular Meiji period Kabuki actor Ichimura Uzaemon XV taken ... They are surrounded by other dignitaries both Japanese and Western. The Western woman may possibly ...