Suzuki, who attends Kyoto Seika University's Faculty of Manga, said she aspires to become a professional cartoonist and to produce work that will encourage a sense of happiness among young female readers. Another teenage manga artist, who goes by the ...full story

Another thought-provoking work playing with the concept of time is Away, by Osaka-born Yukihiro Taguchi, who painstakingly pieces together thousands of single-frame images to create fascinating videos. For this exhibition, Taguchi, who is based in ...full story

OSAKA, Dec. 13 — A special Techno-Art event called ” Asia Student Creative Exchange” was held in the western Japanese city of Osaka on Thursday. Organized by the Osaka-based association Knowledge Capital in cooperation with Hong Kong Cyberport, ...full story

Yokoo's "Pink Girls" series, part of his solo exhibition in Osaka in 1966, was the artist's debut as a painter, and it featured immodest forms of women in shades of hot pink with big breasts, mouths agape, hairy armpits and low-angled up-skirt points ...full story

Masterworks of traditional Japanese art will be the subject of JADA 2013: An Exhibition by the Japanese Art Dealers Association from March 15 to March 20, 2013 during New York's sprawling Asia Week events. The collaborative exhibition by members of the ...full story

The title and inspiration for this permanent work, which has smaller loops for those who don't wish to take the invigorating 2.7-mile walk, came from the philosophers' walks in cities such as Heidelberg, Germany, and Kyoto, Japan, where poets, scholars ...full story

A public toilet in Nakanoshima Park in Osaka has been partially transformed into a one-room hotel as part of an art event. Nakanoshima Hotel public toilet. Feeling flush: A night at the Nakanoshima Hotel costs just under £80. Japanese artist Tatsu ...full story

The toilet, in Osaka's Nakanoshima Park is still working. All the sounds are fully audible to guests. Japanese contemporary artist Tatzu Nishino transformed the public loo into a one room hotel as part of the Osaka Canvas Project, a public art event ...full story

9 at the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts. Although Hokusai is known to have been born in Edo (present-day Tokyo), other details about how he spent his life are not well known. But there is a clue in one line Hokusai wrote in his later years in a ...full story

"A Close Look at Kyoto's Painting Studios" at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art is concerned with Kyoto gadan (modern nihonga [Japanese painting] circles), an appellation coined in 1911 at a lecture by the principal of the Kyoto Municipal Special ...full story