The mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto, banned local government employees from having tattoos and even imposed forced body inspections to enforce the new law. Job prospects for young people in Japan is already difficult following the global economic ...full story

Tokyo is an energetic city, filled with frenetic motion and bustle. These tend to be difficult to capture, unless your canvas is an entire room, as it is for teamLab's mural at the new Tokyo Skytree. Filling the walls of a room at the size of 130-feet ...full story

I browse the exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto (see momak.go.jp) and visit the Commes de Garcon boutique (378 Kameyacho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto; see comme-des-garcons.com). Its designer has a highly intellectual type of clothing.and more »full story

I browse the exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto (see momak.go.jp) and visit the Commes de Garcon boutique (378 Kameyacho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto; see comme-des-garcons.com). Its designer has a highly intellectual type of clothing.and more »full story

"Real Japanesque: The Unique World of Japanese Contemporary Art" at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, is in many ways a trying exhibition. Its concept claims that Japanese artists born after the 1970s are attempting to create something entirely new ...full story

The museum was built by the municipal government in cooperation with Kyoto Seika University, the sole Japanese university that has classes on manga culture and teaches skills to become a professional manga artist. It is Japan's first museum ...full story

Osaka, 20 July 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA). The tenth edition of Art Osaka was a huge success. The contemporary art fair took place from 6 to 8 July 2012 at the Granvia Hotel in Osaka and gathered more than fifty galleries specialised in contemporary art.and more »full story

If you stay in Kyoto you have the possibility to see seven kinds of performing arts in front of your own eyes within only one hour - at Gion Corner, a unique theater. Because all the performances are explained in Japanese and English, Gion Corner is ...full story

Gallery Chayamachi, Osaka, Japan recently hosted a solo painting exhibition, titled “Colours in Mindscape”, featuring works of Bangladeshi painter Maksuda Iqbal Nipa. The exhibition opened ... Nipa is presently a significant name in our art scenario ...full story

With a boldness unusual in a young woman of her day, she left home, under a cloud of disapproval, for art school in Kyoto. There she customized academic styles to her own subversive ends. In the show's earliest painting, “Lingering Dream” from 1949 ...full story