This form of comedy, often associated with the city of Osaka, is quite big in Japan. The most popular Manzai act is currently the duo Downtown. ...full story

Or from Tokyo to Osaka. Shirana Shahbazi's huge-ass skull still lifes. And no diamonds used either! Here are some of Rudi Mantofani's mutant guitar ...full story

... commuting between her large studio in the Tokyo suburbs and the psychiatric hospital that she chooses to call home. Flipping through the art calendar, ...full story

The beginnings of the fringe movement, when young people were celebrating music at Woodstock in Bethel, NY, or producing art in San Francisco's ...full story

Author Eric P Nash examines the little-known art form and predecessor to modern-day anime and manga in his recent book “Manga Kamishibai: The Art of ...full story

Born in Osaka, Japan in 1962 and a Masters in Fine Arts from Kyoto University, Japan, Yuriko married Prof Rajeev Lochan, the present Director of NGMA, ...full story

There are few direct trains to Uno, the port for the main ferry, so we had to catch a 6 am bullet train from Osaka to make the connection in Okayama. ...full story

"Dove Tende Aurora" ("Where The Aurora is Going") at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, is a retrospective of Italy-based Nagasawa's conceptual sculptural ...full story

It was shortly after the end of the war and Tezuka managed to annoy a group of American soldiers in Takarazuka, a town near Osaka. They beat him up. ...full story

The trip will start in Tokyo, go to Hiroshima and Miyajima, then to Kyoto and finally to Fukui. Each city offers its own specialties, such as Hiroshima's ...full story