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"In My Closet" by the artist Noumra is on display at Tokyu Plaza Harajuku's Harakado space until June 18.
CULTURE / Art
At Tokyo Pride¡¯s first queer art exhibition, intimacy and resistance share the wall
A vibrant, community-sourced exhibition in Harajuku showcases queer art that spans the political, absurd and deeply personal.
CULTURE / Art
What can Kenji Yanobe¡¯s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
The spacesuited felines will be familiar to those who have visited the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka or Tokyo¡¯s Ginza Six shopping complex last year.
CULTURE / Art
New Naoshima museum bets on Asia, not the West
The Naoshima New Museum of Art is Tadao Ando¡¯s 10th contribution to the popular art islands.
Artists offer their own interpretations of Japan's most famous monster at "Godzilla The Art Exhibition."
CULTURE / Art
May 31, 2025
'Godzilla The Art Exhibition' reimagines film icon as monstrous muse for modern art
By Matt Schley
The Mori Arts Center Gallery exhibition takes 91²Ö¿â most famous monster beyond the world of filmmaking and asks nine artists to interpret the beast from their own point of view.
¡°Ambient, Environment, Circumstances ¡ª The Typography of Contemporary Art ¡ª¡± is Simose Art Museum¡¯s first contemporary art exhibition.
CULTURE / Art
May 15, 2025
Emerging Asian artists converge at the 'world¡¯s most beautiful museum'
By Kim Kahan
The Shigeru Ban-designed Simose Art Museum celebrates its Prix Versailles architectural award with its first contemporary art exhibition.
The Adachi Institute has been working on creating brand new ukiyo-e prints in collaboration with contemporary artists such as Yayoi Kusama, whose ¡°Mt. Fuji in Seven Colours: When life boundlessly flares up to the universe¡± (2014) can be seen on display at ¡°Ukiyo-e in Play.¡±
CULTURE / Art
May 2, 2025
'Ukiyo-e in Play' showcases traditional art carved anew
By Marigold Warner
The Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints keeps age-old methods alive by creating ukiyo-e prints in collaboration with artisans and contemporary artists.
A 21-month-old artist who goes by the name "Thumbelina" uses a brush to paint alongside her mother at the family's home in Tokyo.
CULTURE / Art
Apr 24, 2025
Thumbelina's bedtime is before 8. Her exhibition runs till 5 a.m.
By Tomohiro Osaki
A toddler¡¯s solo art show lights up Tokyo¡¯s nightlife, even though she¡¯s asleep before her first guests arrive.
Takuro Tamayama¡¯s sculpture ¡°Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)¡± comes with a mathematical formation that scales it for different spaces.
CULTURE / Art
Apr 20, 2025
The floor is art: Takuro Tamayama transforms mundanity
By Kim Kahan
With ¡°Takuro Tamayama: Floor,¡± the artist, at 34, has become the youngest person to ever hold a solo show at the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Palestinian American photographer Adam Rouhana¡¯s exhibition at this year¡¯s Kyotographie festival shows Palestinian life, not death and rubble.
CULTURE / Art
Apr 18, 2025
Kyotographie 2025 opts for laughter and levity in the face of global strife
By Thu-Huong Ha
Artists at the 13th edition of the international photography festival find humor and heart in their portrayals of humanity.
Digital artist Polygon1993 revels in the physicality of nostalgic technology, making art out of materials such as miniature CDs, holographic prints layered with plexiglass shards and a giant custom-made floppy disk.
CULTURE / Art
Apr 8, 2025
Online art scene eager to go offline, at least for the moment
By Zoria Petkoska
From Beeple exhibiting a physical version of an NFT artwork to Polygon1993¡¯s custom-made giant floppy disk, digital media artists are bringing their work into the physical world.

Nankai Trough quake predicted to cause ?1.47 quadrillion in damage
Satoshi Fujii, head of a subcommittee at the Japan Society of Civil Engineers, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Israel attacks Iran¡¯s nuclear program in major escalation
Smoke billows from a site targeted in an Israeli strike in Tehran on Friday.
Japan ranks 118th out of 148 countries in gender gap report
In an annual gender gap report, Japan recorded its strongest gains in economic participation, where its score climbed to 61.3% from 56.8% in 2024.
¡®I got up and ran¡¯: How one man survived the plane crash that killed 241
The tail of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane that crashed in Ahmedabad, India, on Thursday.
Search for answers hastens in Air India crash that killed over 240
Relatives of victims who died in the Air India plane crash mourn as they wait outside the postmortem room at a hospital, in Ahmedabad, India, on Friday.
Hakuho¡¯s new venture not an automatic 'Grand Slam'
Former yokozuna Hakuho arrives at a news conference to announce his future plans in Tokyo on Monday.
Pride and prose: Novels that illuminate queer lives in Japan
June is Pride Month, which means it¡¯s the perfect time to get acquainted with how sexual minorities have been represented in Japanese fiction if you¡¯re not familiar with these narratives already.
Montbell founder went from a feeble boy to a renowned mountaineer
For Isamu Tatsuno, the founder and CEO of outdoor gear maker Montbell, his youth was all about reaching the pinnacle. Today, he¡¯s far more interested in enjoying the journey.
¡®Kokuho¡¯ finds riveting drama on and off the kabuki stage
Lee Sang-il¡¯s "Kokuho" stars Ryo Yoshizawa as an orphan from a yakuza clan who rises through the world of kabuki to become a star performer.
Junto Nakatani remains on collision course with Naoya Inoue after latest win
Junto Nakatani celebrates after defeating Ryosuke Nishida to unify the WBC and IBF bantamweight titles at Ariake Coliseum on Sunday.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture ¡ªlife¡¯s too short, after all.
How 91²Ö¿â youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
By Alex K.T. Martin

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