“The agency of cultural affairs decided to hold special meetings to decide how to promote Japanese contemporary art outside of Japan,” said ... is a Times reporter writing about the art ...

How much fans spend on their oshi depends. According to a recent survey by Japanese marketing company CDG and Oshicoco, an ...

Our Tokyo correspondent tells the fascinating story of the one-man illustration machine behind the free-to-use clip art ...

Approaching Japan’s artistically diverse and politically ... Buckland critiques dominating Western approaches to Japanese art, writing that it’s often “criticized as either now too modern ...

Ahn Jung-geun is best known for his dramatic assassination of Japan's first prime minister in 1909 at a railway station.

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 ...

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 ...

Lucasfilm has fully unveiled the set of 17 prints that will bedeck the various badges for this year's big Star Wars convention–and we just want it on everything beyond a badge, too. Last October ...