Art Mar 23, 2021
TeamLab and TikTok team up for immersive sauna exhibition in Tokyo
"Reconnect: Art with Rinkan Sauna" promises visitors an otherworldly visual experience
National Sep 26, 2019
Aichi art festival won't receive state subsidy after controversy over 'comfort women' exhibit
The exhibit “After ‘Freedom of Expression?’” was closed three days after the Aug. 1 opening over security concerns due to multiple threats to the festival.
National Aug 9, 2018
Tokyo exhibition to portray bond between Helen Keller and Akita dogs
U.S. author and activist Helen Keller (1880-1968) treasured the companionship of dogs throughout her life, including two Akitas from Japan that in the 1930s became the first of their kind to enter the United States. Half a century since Keller passed away, an exhibition touring ...
National Mar 3, 2018
Japanese department store cancels photo exhibition on women's thighs amid kiddie porn concerns
Department store Marui has canceled a photo exhibition featuring women's thighs amid criticism some of the images appear to portray underage girls. Amid online outrage, Marui Group Co. said Friday it was canceling the event at its Ikebukuro outlet in Tokyo for "various reasons." According to ...
National | CHUBU CONNECTION Sep 18, 2017
Nagoya teen brings 100 paper insects to life at an art exhibit
With just a pair of scissors and plain drawing paper, Shinichiro Ishikawa, a 15-year-old high school student from Nagoya, can quickly create lifelike cutouts of insects such as a pink mantis poised to take down its prey or a yellow swallowtail butterfly with its ...
National / Social Issues Aug 17, 2016
Tokyo exhibition focuses on plight of sexually exploited girls
by Tomohiro Osaki
In Japan, teenage girls who turn to prostitution do so because they want to make easy money or fulfill their own pleasures. Or not really. Contrary to popular stereotypes, "few girls I've seen began prostituting themselves light-heartedly or to earn easy money," said Yumeno Nito, a ...
National / History Jan 29, 2016
Hiroshima, Nagasaki plan A-bomb exhibition near G-7 summit venue
Hiroshima and Nagasaki plan to hold an exhibition on the atomic bombings that destroyed the cities during the war in 1945 when the Group of Seven summit is held in Mie Prefecture in May, Hiroshima officials said Friday. The exhibition will be held near the ...
Art Dec 25, 2015
Japan's first major exhibition of erotic art known as shunga, which ended earlier this week in Tokyo, drew more than 200,000 visitors during its three-month run, organizers said. Former Prime Minister Morihiro Hokokawa, who heads the Eisei-Bunko Museum where the exhibition was held, said he ...
National / Politics Dec 7, 2015
Exhibit of Nanking Massacre starts in China ahead of anniversary
A new exhibition started Monday at a museum dedicated to the 1937 massacre in Nanjing of Chinese citizens by the Japanese military, ahead of this weekend's anniversary of the incident. The exhibition, featuring documents and items on the theme of "victory" against Japanese wartime aggression, ...
National Aug 17, 2015
A glitzy skyscraper in front of JR Tokyo Station is set for an unlikely installation at its atrium — a genuine sumo ring. Wrestlers will take part in exhibition bouts in the ring at the KITTE shopping area in JP Tower on Aug. 29, with ...
National Jul 17, 2015
Gold Gundam replica highlights extensive exhibition on famed series
Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. unveiled a pure gold replica of a Gundam robot at a press preview Thursday for an exhibition titled "The Art of Gundam." The figurine, which stands 12.5 cm tall and weighs 1 kg, has a hefty price tag of ¥20 million. ...
National / History Jun 19, 2015
Wartime 'furoshiki' wrapping cloth pushing fighting spirit on display at Kyoto temple
An exhibition of furoshiki wrapping cloth designed to whip up people's fighting spirit during World War II will be held from Friday to Monday at Honen-in Temple in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward. Fighter planes, musical scores of military songs and newspaper articles praising the Imperial Japanese Army's ...