Lee called Yamada a "national treasure" (the English translation of "Kokuho") while Yamada said that putting his modestly ...

Backstage melodrama meets succession saga in Sang-il Lee's feature, which is toplined by Ryo Yoshizawa and Ryusei Yokohama ...

Imagine having one foot firmly in the modern world and the other planted deep in the realm of folklore and fantasy. A ...

In collaboration with The House of Suntory, Senju masterfully reimagines the relationship between whiskey, art and nature, ...

Japan Society has revealed that Shinichiro Watanabe, the acclaimed director behind “Cowboy Bebop,” “Samurai Champloo” and ...

It is July in Yokohama, Japan, a port city situated to the south of Tokyo’s urban sprawl. Slowed down by the blistering heat, a cohort of besuited men filtered drowsily into the cavernous Pacifico ...

Artists with Creative Clay share interests, art and inspiration with artists in Japan through "Artlink Takamatsu." ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the land of Hello Kitty, kawaii (“cute”) culture and the Neo-Pop art of 1990s Japan, Tetsuya Ishida was an outlier. The surrealist artist, who died in 2005 aged 31, wasn’t a loner, according to ...

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 ...