Tokyo National Museum opened an exhibit devoted to the famous monk on July 20. In a blockbuster display of Buddhist art treasures, the Tokyo National Museum Wednesday opened an exhibit devoted to one of Japan's best-known monks, credited with bringing ...full story

Seven local art critics including Seo Seong-rok, head of the Korean Association of Art Critics and Andong National University professor, and three international art critics including Fumio Nanjo, director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, were nominated ...full story

Importantly, unlike in the past, such comments came not only from those who criticised the Trial but also from those who regarded the legacy of the Tokyo Trial for contemporary Japan in positive terms. In the field of art, Kinoshita Junji's 1970 play, ...full story

... have the decentered intensity that is its hallmark -- and coincidentally just happens to be one of the key characteristics of Japanese art and society. Mikiko Kumazawa's next show will be at Tokyo's Dai-ichi Life Gallery from October 3 to November 11.full story

The "art island" of Naoshima is dotted with calming concrete installations a world away from Tokyo's frenetic pace. Pico Iyer enjoys a moment of serenity Mood indigo: Benesse House, a museum and hotel designed by Tadao Ando. ...full story

Mizuki Tanaka, apprentice to Morio Nakajima, painting a mural of Mount Fuji in the Moto no Yu baths in Tokyo. Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert for the Guardian With a few vigorously applied sweeps of a brush, the backdrop to Japan's best-known ...full story

Her artwork has been exhibited at galleries in New York, Seattle, Toronto, Tokyo, and Paris. This is not the first time Mizuno's art has appeared at Gallery Nucleus; her works appeared at the same gallery in November 2010 and October 2007. ...full story

Thirty-three-year-old Taka Sudo was born and raised in a suburb of Tokyo. He studied law at Rikkyo St. Paul's University in Tokyo, but found his calling in art instead. "When I was learning law, I couldn't find any justice or equity in law, ...full story

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A committee of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization decided at its meeting Tuesday to defer registering the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, designed by French architect Le Corbusier, as a World Heritage ...full story

A visitor watches interactive art form entitled "AquaticColors," created by Japanese artist Takahiro Matsuo at an art exhibition in Tokyo. A Pakistani worker walks next to a burning pile of confiscated drugs and prohibited material set on fire by ...full story