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 ...

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 ...

Handsome, brilliant, persuasive, emotional Wang Ching-wei, Japan’s puppet President of China, during most of his 57 years has been haunted by the ghost of power, the fantasy of cheering crowds. For ...

COLUMBIA — Mid-Missouri residents got a chance to watch the only Bunraku performance group in the U.S. on Saturday. Bunraku Bay Puppet Theater, the only traditional Japanese puppet theater outside ...

Witness the grace and grandeur of a 400 year old Japanese tradition, performed for the first time ever in South East Asia. BUNRAKU- Traditional Japanese Puppet Theatre is a showcase of fastidious ...

OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) - Stuck at home for weeks while Japan was under a state of emergency due to the coronavirus, renowned Japanese Bunraku puppet master Kanjuro Kiritake, all his performances ...

As depopulation deepens around the world, a small village in Japan turns to puppets to stitch their community back together. Ichinono is only one of several “doll villages” in Japan where life-sized ...

For the first time in 30 years, a treasure of Japan has been touring the United States. It's not jewels or a painting. It's a sophisticated kind of puppet theater where the puppets are almost the size ...