Mr. Wood, a 25-year-old graduate of Stanford University in California, and students like him have gravitated toward the modern Japanese arts, feeling they may help them advance their careers in animation, design, computer graphics and the business of promoting them.

A Japanese-style inn opened here in mid-December that brings the legendary service and attention of Japan's world-famous Kagaya Hotel to Taiwan. In development since 2004, the Radium-Kagaya International Hotel is located in Beitou, a famed if slightly faded resort area at the foot of a sulfur-scented group of mountains known as Yangmingshan that dominates Taipei's northern skyline.

Four years ahead of its 800th anniversary, the Magna Carta is coming to Los Angeles.

Cultural exchange was an important part of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s agenda during his visit to the city. On Wednesday, he met a delegation of filmmakers at Yash Raj Films Studio in Andheri. The idea was to encourage and improve cultural relations with Bollywood.

...Thanks to an unwritten agreement between Holbrooke and Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, the American Cultural Center in Belgrade, closed by order of the US government through its now-defunct United States Information Agency in the mid-1990s, was reopened not long after the 1995 Dayton Peace accord -- with Milosevic footing the bill!

Germany has opened a cultural exhibition in Munich in an attempt to introduce the rich Iranian civilization as well as Persian arts and culture. Iran, Land of Prayers was opened as part of the 2010 Islamic Art Expo at Munich's Villa Stuck Museum which will run until February 15, 2011.

The ethnic cultural diversity of the South American nation of Ecuador came to life in the Indian capital with a colourful showcase of music and dances based on the indigenous folklores and social mores of the country.

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani at Lok Virsa (National Institute of Folk & Traditional Heritage), Shakarparian inaugurated an exhibition ‘Connecting People Through Crafts’ on Tuesday.