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

I'd visited the city of 1.5 million (two million more if you factor in adjacent Osaka) a few months earlier. And while Kyoto is widely known for its Zen Buddhist temples and gardens, traditional wooden houses, fine arts and crafts, and opportunity to ...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

These experiences opened him up to new artistic directions and in 1975 he became the first Art Director of Playboy Monthly (Japanese Edition). He has worked as a professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design since 1991, and his work continues to be ...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

During his six-month residence in Kyoto, Monteith came to understand the spirit of the Japanese people; visiting their gardens and shrines, some of them centuries old, he was amazed that they had been spared during World War II, and equally amazed by ...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

(AP Photo/Kyodo News) The Mississippi Museum of Art is showing “The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art, 1854–1918,” and “Kyoto Views: The Art of Randy Hayes” through July 17 in Jackson. The museum is joining many nonprofit institutions ...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

Yet the focus tends to be on Okamoto's eccentric behavior rather than his artwork, some of the greatest of which are now on display at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Despite this fascination, his lifetime of artwork shows he was a ...full story