It was the summer of 1966. The Beatles were in the middle of a tour that had them play five shows in just three days at Japan’s famed Nippon Budokan arena — but when they weren’t performing, they were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Fender Japan Fender has continued to celebrate the first anniversary of its flagship Tokyo store by releasing a new range ...

Japanese art has an allure that transcends time, from the resplendent beauty of paintings on golden screens to the elegant lines of ikebana flower arrangements. In modern times, new technologies are ...

Japan’s art market has outperformed the global industry over the past five years, according to a new report from art economist Clare McAndrew. While global sales ticked up just 1 percent from 2019 to ...

Approaching Japan's artistically diverse and politically entangled history of art is a formidable task, not least because English-language art history publications on the multifaceted subject are few ...

Everything has its beauty, but not every one sees it. — Confucius. “THERE are cases,” says the critic Moto-ori, “in which a precise reproduction of a thing as it is in nature produces a bad picture ...

A VERY interesting essay upon the Japanese art collections in the National Library was read by Mr. Edward Strange at a meeting of the Japan Society held last year in London. Mr. Strange proved his ...

Setsuko Mitsuhashi, "The Requital by the White Heron" (1973), natural pigments on Japanese paper (all images courtesy Yasumasa Suzuki and the Setsuko Mitsuhashi Memorial Museum) OTSU, Japan — It’s a ...

Asia Society Japan is honored to invite artist, Ryo Shinagawa for Art for Breakfast this May. His works at first sight look academic and historic. They are contemporary Japanese paintings using ...