A new exhibition spotlights a trio who pushed the boundaries of American art and illustrated the experiences of World War II ...
The “Amano Corpus Animae” exhibition celebrates Amano as a transversal artist whose Japanese style has been infused with ...
That was, in part, the inspiration for “Library Cat,” an art exhibition opening Thursday at Carthage College. Because of the feline/library connection, the art is on display in the college’s ...
In ’74, long before he found fame as a successful writer, author and essayist, Haruki Murakami founded and ran the Tokyo jazz ...
But in Japan, we also see how she may appear happy if you're happy ... We don't even know if she is a cat," art historian ...
Tove Jansson: Paradise' at the Helsinki Art Museum (HAM) marks the first time that Jansson’s public paintings have been collectively displayed. Although Jansson, who died in 2001, is best known ...
The Japanese electorate appeared to punish the Liberal Democrats, leaving it unclear whether the party would be forced to expand its coalition to stay in power. By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and ...
It has, after all, been just eight years since plastic-eating microbes were first discovered, in Japan. In 2016, researchers from the Kyoto Institute of Technology and Keio University, in Japan ...
By David Waldstein Masa Kawai wore his faded Yankees cap on Wednesday as he served customers at the Japanese doughnut shop he owns in Edgewater, N.J. It was two days before Game 1 of a World ...
Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Japanese art historian Shuji Takashina, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and former director of the National Museum of Western Art, died of heart failure Oct. 17 at his ...
The au Jibun Bank flash Japan manufacturing purchasing managers' index declined to 49.0 in October from 49.7 in September. The index stayed below the 50.0 threshold separating growth from ...
Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal ...