From anime to fine art: Japan's Yoshitaka Amano is celebrated with a major retrospective
In a career spanning more than 50 years, Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano has gained a following as an animator, illustrator, ...
Peter Cat: Haruki Murakami’s jazz bar in Kokubunji, Tokyo
In ’74, long before he found fame as a successful writer, author and essayist, Haruki Murakami founded and ran the Tokyo jazz ...
The New York Times18d
Japan’s Long-Governing Party Loses Its Majority
The Japanese electorate appeared to punish the Liberal Democrats, leaving it unclear whether the party would be forced to expand its coalition to stay in power. By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and ...
The New York Times20d
These Japanese Baseball Fans Love Ohtani. They Love the Yankees More.
By David Waldstein Masa Kawai wore his faded Yankees cap on Wednesday as he served customers at the Japanese doughnut shop he owns in Edgewater, N.J. It was two days before Game 1 of a World ...
japannews.yomiuri21d
Japanese Art Historian Shuji Takashina Dies at 92
Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Japanese art historian Shuji Takashina, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and former director of the National Museum of Western Art, died of heart failure Oct. 17 at his ...
The Washington Post22d
The 20 best art museums in America
Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal ...
The Economist22d
Japan is remarkably open to AI, but slow to make use of it
What does a Japanese person recall? Doraemon, the friendly robot helper of an enormously popular eponymous anime series. So goes an anecdote making the rounds in Japanese tech circles. It suggests ...
Observer22d
One Fine Show: ‘Hokusai, Waves of Inspiration’ at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Welcome to one fine show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. The only art ...
Fox Sports23d
Yuki Kawamura is the shortest player in the NBA... and quickly becoming a cult hero for the Grizzlies
The NBA announced on Wednesday that this year’s rosters featured a record-tying 125 international players and while he is only 5-foot-8, Japanese guard Yuki Kawamura is already making a big ...
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The Next Wave of Japanese Menswear Is Here—These Are the Brands to Know
Japan’s influence on menswear over the past several decades has been profound. At this stage, in fact, it’s practically to the point of cliché. Ask a cool guy who makes his cool pants.
Polygon28d
Learning Japanese with games and anime is easier than ever
Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of YouTubers — with the help of modern tools — has made learning one of the world’s most challenging languages into a ...
Art Institute of Chicago29d
Transitory Beauty: Japanese Fan Prints
Many of the fan prints in the Art Institute’s collection survive because they were not mounted on bamboo sticks and thus were never used. Japanese print designs also commonly featured depictions of ...