Traditional puppetry is one of Japan’s many gifts to world theater. And it is so important to the history and present-day culture of Japan’s Awaji Island, near Osaka, that every day master puppeteers ...

Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe will perform ancient Japanese puppetry Friday and Saturday, Jan. 16 and 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Pardoe Theatre at Brigham Young University. Tickets are $11, or $6 with a BYU ...

Children see and play with all sorts of puppets: Finger puppets, hand puppets, sock puppets, marionettes and even Muppets. But what about Japanese Bunraku puppets? This type of puppetry is an ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kanjuro Kiritake, a Bunraku puppeteer, performs Japan's traditional puppet drama called 'Bunraku' at National Theatre in Tokyo ...

Yikes! This week in Japan, photos of a puppet popped up online. The puppet appeared on a kid’s program in Japan. Online, commenters are saying its head looks “totally” like a dildo. Note: This article ...

For the first time in about 30 years, a Japanese theater that uses human-sized puppets is performing across the country. For the first time in 30 years, a treasure of Japan has been touring the United ...

WELCOME BACK. RIGHT NOW, A GROUP OF PERFORMERS FROM JAPAN ARE IN IOWA SHARING THEIR ART OF PUPPET THEATER. KCCI’S NICOLE TAM EXPLAINS THE UNIQUE STORYTELLING ON STAGE WITH THE LONG HISTORY THAT DATES ...

Martin Holman preparing his black outfit before he and the rest of the Bunkaru Bay Puppet Troupe perform at the Rock Bridge Elementary school. COLUMBIA, Mo. — Ominous in black robes and hoods, three ...

For many kids, a puppet is a toy, wrapped around a hand or even a single finger like a decorated mitten. For young Koryu Nishikawa V, puppets were a business that had been in his family for more than ...