Gallery Speak For Closes March 2 Hong Kong-based Wing Shya is primarily a fashion photographer, known for edgy editorial spreads in Britain’s iD, French Vogue, Japan’s Men’s no-no magazines and more, so it’s not surprising that he has chosen stunningly beautiful women as the ...

A temporary pavilion in Tokyo’s Hibiya Park seems like an unlikely venue for showcasing the hallowed works of Leonardo da Vinci, but for this particular exhibition, the big top-like structure is appropriate. “Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius” is aimed straight at the general public. ...

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Closes Jan. 30 In the design world, if there is one nation that has the knack of being self-referentially humorous, it has to be the Dutch. Take a look at its entry to the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. ...

London, it appears, is a good place to learn about both past and present Japan. Last year, as Britain celebrated 150 years of cultural exchange with Japan, it hosted a number of major shows, including a large-scale matsuri (festival) in Spitalfields Market, a comprehensive ...

A first-time visitor to 3331 Arts Chiyoda might be equally intrigued and confused. To the left of the entrance, there’s a wide open space with only tables and chairs; in the center, a small booth with shelves stuffed with toys; to the right, a ...

Sony ExploraScience “Sensor in the Life” closes Aug. 31 In a survey conducted by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture in 2003, science was ranked as the subject school students thought to be the least important to learn, even though it was also ...

A woman in a corseted, white-lace dress stares straight ahead as she unveils a framed funerary portrait of another young woman. This sepia-toned 19th-century photograph is historian and curator Geoffrey Batchen’s choice for the very first image of “Suspending Time: Life – Photography – ...

National Museum of Emerging Science Closes May 31 A haunted house is not something you would expect to find at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), but this latest special exhibition begins with just that — an experience that spooks visitors ...

Yayoi Museum Closes Sept. 27 The moon is a giant hothouse for mammoth vegetables and, as natural resources dwindle, mirrored satellites divert beams of artificial light to melt the South Pole for water. Brightly colored vehicles hover, fly or float through the air; high-speed ...

“I always found it really strange,” says Natalie Maya Willer, 30, a photographer based in London, “how I thought I could spot half-Japanese people in the street. . . . Then at the same time, with me not really looking Japanese, I also wondered ...

Sitting at the wheel of a 4-ton truck, Charles McJilton suddenly says, “Oh wait, wait!” before pulling off his T-shirt and swapping it for a white one with a bright orange Second Harvest Japan logo on the chest and “Food for all people” spanning ...