The gathering celebrates Japanese pop culture, including anime, gaming, art and music. The festivities include video and ...

Japanese art was all around me while traveling through Kyoto and Tokyo in Japan. One of the reasons I started Passport by ...

While the idea of organising my fridge has always appealed to me, I’m not someone who drinks 20 cans of Diet Coke or has a whole drawer dedicated to yoghurt pouches. I’m just ...

Welcome to one fine show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City, a place ...

On October 23rd, Seiko unveiled their short film, THE GIFT OF TIME, to explore the relationship between Japanese culture, ...

In two piercing works, the National Bunraku Theatre’s puppets—floating, airy creatures weighted by earthly human ...

Suntory’s Hibiki 40 Years Old was released globally in October 2024 at $35,000 a bottle, showcasing the classic style of ...

The new co-production treaty signed between Japan and Italy is being touted as a step towards reintegrating Japan’s film ...

Yūzū Nenbutsu Engi (Origins of the Yuzu Nenbutsu Sect) 融通念仏縁起 (detail), Handscroll, Kamakura or period, 14th century, Japan, Ink, color, and gold on paper, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian ...

Hublot has unveiled its latest collaboration with the artist Takashi Murakami. He is well known in his native Japan for blending traditional and contemporary artistic styles. Murakami is probably best ...

Back then, his gallery was in the historic Shokuryo Building in the Koto ward of eastern Tokyo and it was known as the home of the first wave of Japanese contemporary art galleries. (The gallery ...

Chiba was nominated to the Japan Art Academy in 2022 as one of its first two manga creators (along with Yoshiharu Tsuge ). He ...