A Banksy-style artwork of a rat holding an umbrella at a rail station in Japan could be the elusive British artist’s latest discovered work, local officials claim. Government officials from Tokyo ...

Japanese researchers in Japan have developed a clever way to turn an entire umbrella into one giant speaker. Made of bamboo and paper, the Oto-Shigure uses a built-in amplifier connected to four tiny ...

One of Tokyo's last handmade umbrella shops has weathered many storms and is now thriving thanks to booming demand for parasols as Japanese summers get hotter, including increasingly from men. The ...