Kawaguchi City, located just north of Tokyo and easily accessible from the city center, is home to a 400-year tradition of bonsai and horticultural culture known as "Chitose Midori." This rare ...

Fender has continued to celebrate the first anniversary of its flagship Tokyo store by releasing a new range of Art Canvas Esquires, which brings a trio of iconic Japanese landscape prints to an ...

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 ...

Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a bustling city that is best discovered at a leisurely pace.

This exhibition highlights both iconic and lesser-known aspects of Japanese culture through paintings and ceramics from the Freer Gallery of Art Collection. Learn about Japanese art with a focus on ...

French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own career ...

The “modern girls” (“moga”) who populate some of the works in the Japan Society’s new exhibition, “Deco Japan,” inhabit a world of contradiction: frivolity and militarism, bright colors and dark ...

In Japan, time is not always conceived of in a linear fashion, as it often is in the West. Past, present and future are not distinct realms, and they can instead overlap and shift. This conception of ...

Making Art in Japan 1989-2010", co-curated by The National Art Center, Tokyo and M+, Hong Kong, brings together more than 50 artists from Japan and abroad ...

You don't need to eat that sammich if it doesn't spark joy anymore. Get yourself inspired with these edible pieces of wonder ...

Detail of the “Hell for Priests Scroll’ (12-13th c.), showing a demon jailor leading sinners to the river of excrement (Collection of the Nara National Museum, all images courtesy PIE International) ...

While South Korea’s art scene has been stealing the spotlight in recent years, Japan is staging a quiet yet deliberate comeback. A recently published study by Dr. Clare McAndrew (the brains behind the ...