A museum closure has shone a light on the vast collections acquired during the bubble years — and warned companies that ...

Movie star William Holden, accompanied by his wife, former actress Brenda Marshall, arrived at Tokyo International Airport ...

If you’re looking for ways to fully appreciate Japan’s unique culture when visiting Tokyo, then there are plenty of carefully ...

A simple request to examine a centuries-old artwork led to a stunning discovery: the paintings on “fusuma” sliding doors ...

In the past decade, underground electronic and experimental scenes in Asia forged new connections across borders. Is a global ...

Striving to be unique, it is bringing attention to artists from around the world whose works have rarely been seen in Japan.

Open to the public, the Antique Dealers’ Fair & Exhibition will allow visitors to see pieces up close, which might just spur ...

A joint research group led by Jonghyun Kim and Jun Ohashi of the University of Tokyo has demonstrated that the majority of ...

During the Yayoi period, immigrants from the Korean Peninsula admixed with the Jomon people, leading to the formation of the ancestral population of modern Japanese people. These immigrants possessed ...

The tension between sacred mysteries that must be shielded from outsiders and those that can be revealed animates an ...

Newly launched wrestling league Sukeban is collaborating with brands from Aries to Pat McGrath Labs. As the event lands in ...

Funds and art experts suspect that an unknowable ... co-founder of Kaname Capital, is Japan’s long history with extremely high levels of inheritance tax — a levy of around 50 per cent on ...