Lab has a new, limited-time exhibition in Roppongi! This time, they combine art with sauna for a next-level experience! With ...

Even before the pandemic, donning a mask in Japan was normal for many during hay ... Tellingly, roughly a quarter of the art school students who took the class kept their masks on during the ...

But what happens when you combine traditional masks from Japanese theater with Western art and pop icons? This fusion of art forms is on display at Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou ...

Japan's government will drop its recommendation to wear masks indoors and downgrade its ... more than a dozen Tokyo art school students held mirrors to their faces, stretching the sides of their ...

Industrial zone turned a centre for art and culture, Kitakagaya ranks right at the top of any list of Osaka’s most creative neighbourhoods. Smack in the middle of the action is MASK, a 1,000 ...

Including one very famous monster. The five covers of T’s annual Culture issue — which this year is devoted entirely to Japan and its outsize cultural influence on the world — feature six of ...

Japan's reflexive fealty to masks and its entrenched reluctance on ... They were state of the art. Until Apple came along, then Samsung. Japan's cellphone makers and their technology were soon ...

Image: Students learn to practice facial muscles with mirrors at a smile training course at Sokei Art School in Tokyo People in Japan who became so used to wearing face masks during the pandemic ...

Students practice smiling at a smile training course at Sokei Art School in Tokyo, Japan, May 30, 2023. (credit: REUTERS/KIM KYUNG-HOON) Even before the pandemic, donning a mask in Japan was ...