The Naoshima New Museum of Art focuses primarily on Asian contemporary art. This is because, in addition to our expectations that art from these regions will grow in interesting ways going into the ...

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Once polluted and suffering from depopulation, Naoshima has become Japan's hottest contemporary art enclave – and there are signs that life there may be finally rebounding. Shinichi Kobayashi ...

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Among them was Foujita, whose place in art history is complicated by his role in Japan’s war effort: He dedicated his wartime practice to glorifying the efforts and bravery of the Imperial Army ...

Higashiyama was a contemporary of Yasushi Sugiyama, Togyū Okumura, and Maeda Seison. Throughout his career, he was honored with the Japan Art Academy Prize, the Order of Culture, the Mainichi Art ...

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Our creative community has done its best to beat back the forces of blandness and turn this into a city that sees a blank space as an opportunity to add to the urban art gallery around us.

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Tobias Harris is the founder of Japan Foresight. He is the author of "The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan." By all accounts, Shigeru Ishiba should be bracing for the end of his ...

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