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.
Major exhibition on 'Tale of Genji' launches at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a major exhibition Tuesday that focuses on artwork inspired by the 11th-century Japanese classic "The Tale of Genji." The epic tale written by Murasaki Shikibu, a lady-in-waiting in the early 11th-century Imperial court, depicts the romantic life of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tokyo exhibition focuses on plight of sexually exploited girls
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
