Child Kabuki actors go through a difficult transitional period when their voices change with puberty but they aren’t yet mature enough to take adult roles. Only the truly determined ones pull ...

“Generations of kabuki actors before me have used Asakusa as a stepping stone, performing many of kabuki’s most coveted roles for the first time here and subsequently refining their skills ...

Prosecutors indicted popular Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke in a case that has riveted Japan for aiding and abetting in the suicide of his parents in May. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors ...

This is a photograph of the popular Meiji period Kabuki actor Ichimura Uzaemon XV taken at the Kabukiza in 1930 in Tokyo. He is dressed as Togashi, the aristocrat in charge of the road barrier in ...