Playing Santa: Students (from left) Rina Kawamura, Shoko Yamaji, Freya Kirwan and Kaya Frese stuff recorders into bags recently at Osaka International School of Kwansei Gakuin in Minoo, Osaka Prefecture. MARK HOLLSTEIN PHOTOS "The earthquake was so ...full story

ZIPANGU, an exhibition now showing in Tokyo ahead of runs in Osaka and Kyoto, promotes itself as presenting "31 spirited artists cutting through new territory in Japanese contemporary art." The exhibition features about 60 works by artists seeking ...full story

The Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, now at the planning stage, will be built in the Nakanoshima district of Kita Ward, a narrow sandbank between the Dojima and Tosabori rivers that is considered by many as a symbol of Osaka. This exhibition, which is ...full story

Born in Osaka she began her classical ballet training at age three. She has studied old Japanese mythological dances and undertook a multi-year pilgrimage, performing in every prefecture of Japan, and deepening within her the skill and spirit of Mai, ...full story

Strongly influenced by Pablo Picasso, he is known for his abstract paintings and sculptures, including his “Tower of the Sun” erected for the Osaka Expo in 1970. “Myth of Tomorrow,” created in Mexico in 1968-69, went missing for years but was ...full story

TOKYO — An anonymous painter in Japan at the weekend added an image of the stricken Fukushima atomic plant to a public mural about the horrors of a nuclear explosion by the late abstract master Taro Okamoto. The clandestine add-on image -- painted in ...full story

The unforgettable image was exhibited at Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan. "That has been a gift," says Odjig. "Every stroke of the brush, every stroke of the pencil, it comes on its own. I don't even write down colours. I pick one colour and another one comes ...full story

He performed there as scheduled several hours later but postponed his remaining stops in Sendai, Budukha, Fukuoka and Tokyo. On Friday the singer-songwriter announced he was canceling the remainder of his Japan tour because he wouldn't be able to work ...full story

Artist Tabaimo (given name: Ayako Tabata) has been selected as the artist to represent Japan at the biennale, under the direction of Yuka Uematsu, curator of the National Museum of Art in Osaka. A 35-year-old artist, Tabaimo is know for vast ...full story

"Kaza Ana / Air Hole: Another Form of Conceptualism from Asia" at The National Museum of Art, Osaka runs till June 5; admission ¥850; open 10 am-5 pm (Fri. till 7 pm), closed Mon. For more information, visit www.nmao.go.jp By CB LIDDELL.full story