Waka underwent a revival, too, in relation to kokugaku, the study of Japanese classics.

The interesting menu fuses Indonesian and Malaysian with Chinese and Japanese classics.

This time, though, Ninagawa has brought over a Japanese classic.

If you asked me to name my favourite movies, some of the Japanese classics would figure very highly.

Although Shinchosha prides itself on its 90 years of publishing modern Japanese literary classics, the company chose to join the audio-visual age.

Shibusawa wrote many short stories and novels based on French literature and Japanese classics.

Their first, self-titled album, released in 1977, remains a Japanese folk-rock classic.

Ayako was a voracious reader as a child, borrowing Japanese classics and translated Western classics wherever she could find them.

It is this training, perhaps, that explains Kabuki's continuing vitality and why its actors move so easily from Japanese classics into other genres of international theater.

I Map This well-known arthouse standby screens Japanese and foreign classics, as well as new independent releases.