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Ang receives Fukuoka Asian Culture grand prize

FUKUOKA, Japan - Cambodian ethnologist Ang Choulean, a professor at Cambodia's Royal University of Fine Arts, is pictured in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 15, 2011, after receiving the Grand Prize of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes the same day. The prize is presented to an individual or group who has made outstanding contributions to the preservation and creation of Asian culture and has exhibited the significance of Asian culture to the world through their work. Ang is known for making significant contributions to the restoration and preservation of the Angkor Monuments, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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Ethnologist Umesao dies at 90

TOKYO, Japan - Ethnologist Tadao Umesao (file photo), founding head of the National Museum of Ethnology who was renowned for a range of unique dissertations and books on civilizations based on field work, died of old age at his home in Osaka Prefecture on July 3, 2010. He was 90.

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Late Umesao's house in Kyoto opens as gallery

Mayao Umesao (C), a potter and the second son of the late ethnologist Tadao Umesao, talks to visitors at the opening of the gallery "rondokreanto" in Kyoto on Aug. 29, 2015. He turned his father's house, once called "Umesao Salon," into the gallery. (Kyoto) ==Kyodo

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Late Umesao's house in Kyoto opens as gallery

Photos taken by the late ethnologist Tadao Umesao are displayed at his house, once called "Umesao Salon," in Kyoto on Aug. 29, 2015. His son turned the two-story wooden house into a gallery. Umesao, who died in 2010 at age 90, purchased the house in 1949 and lived there until he became the first director general of the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka Prefecture in 1974. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Italian writer talks about hardships in Japan during WWII

Italian author Dacia Maraini gives an interview in Pescasseroli, Italy, on April 3, 2015, recalling hardships she experienced as a child at a concentration camp near Nagoya, central Japan, during World War II, after Italy's surrender to the Allied forces in 1943. She spent her early childhood in Japan while her father Fosco Maraini, a renowned ethnologist, was conducting his research. The family was confined to the camp due to the parents' antifascist views. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Late Umesao's house in Kyoto opens as gallery

This is a portrait of the late ethnologist Tadao Umesao. His house in Kyoto, once called "Umesao Salon" because many students and researchers used to gather there every Friday, opened as the gallery "rondokreanto" in August 2015. (Kyoto) ==Kyodo

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Ethnologist Umesao dies at 90

TOKYO, Japan - Ethnologist Tadao Umesao (file photo), founding head of the National Museum of Ethnology who was renowned for a range of unique dissertations and books on civilizations based on field work, died of old age at his home in Osaka Prefecture on July 3, 2010. He was 90. (Kyodo)

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Ang receives Fukuoka Asian Culture grand prize

FUKUOKA, Japan - Cambodian ethnologist Ang Choulean, a professor at Cambodia's Royal University of Fine Arts, is pictured in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 15, 2011, after receiving the Grand Prize of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes the same day. The prize is presented to an individual or group who has made outstanding contributions to the preservation and creation of Asian culture and has exhibited the significance of Asian culture to the world through their work. Ang is known for making significant contributions to the restoration and preservation of the Angkor Monuments, a UNESCO World Heritage site. (Kyodo)