Japanese planetariums and art museums tap VR craze to offer immersive experiences
With virtual reality technology becoming all the rage, planetariums and museums are cashing in on the trend to give visitors a closer view of the stars and artworks. Precision equipment maker Konica Minolta Inc. is offering VirtuaLink, a VR facility in Tokyo's Koto Ward, as ...
Yamaguchi museum's showing of long-missing Sesshu work rekindles interest in treasured ink artist
The discovery of a long-missing painting by Sesshu, a master in the Japanese art of sumi-e (ink painting), after 84 years is generating renewed interest in the 16th century painter, boosting visitors to a Yamaguchi museum displaying the work. The museum announced the rare find ...
The east building of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum reopened April 26 following renovations.
Famed Saitama art gallery kicks off fundraising campaign to preserve Hiroshima Panels
A gallery in Saitama Prefecture has launched a fundraising campaign to preserve its main exhibit — a series of large panels depicting the horrors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — in the face of damage caused by insects, ultraviolet rays ...
Ishikawa Prefecture is inviting visitors to view a studio where cultural assets are restored in a bid to draw public attention to the skill of art repair, the first such attempt by a local government in Japan. Ishikawa is known for traditional urushi lacquerware known ...
The Louis Armstrong House Museum has acquired the only known film of the great jazz musician in a recording studio, footage that was discovered in a storage facility. The 33-minute, 16 mm film captures Armstrong recording his 1959 album "Satchmo Plays King Oliver" in Los ...
Overseas visitors to Hiroshima atomic bomb museum hit record high in fiscal 2015
The number of foreign visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum marking the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city increased some 104,500 from a year earlier to a record 338,891 in fiscal 2015, the museum said Wednesday. A museum official attributed the rise in ...
Taiji told to pay ¥110,000 after woman barred from whale museum
The Australian, of conservation group Australia for Dolphins (AFD), was barred from entering the museum in February 2014.
Uzbek's museum keeps memories of Japanese prisoners in Soviet camps alive
Documents on Japanese captives sent off to Soviet labor camps after the war are being displayed at a self-funded museum in Tashkent owned by an Uzbek man who spent nearly 20 years building it. "It is part of our history that Japanese people lived in ...
Part of UNESCO pitch? Seoul seeks to create 'comfort women' research institute, museum: paper
The South Korean government is working toward establishing a research institute with a history museum archiving and exhibiting materials concerning females forced to work in Japanese military brothels during the war, a South Korean newspaper reported online Wednesday. The Kukmin Ilbo quoted officials of the ...
Duskin to open doughnut museum, hoping to benefit from tourism boom
Duskin Co., operator of the U.S.-founded Mister Donut chain, will invest about ¥200 million ($1.6 million) to open a museum in Osaka Prefecture this fall that will allow visitors to experience making doughnuts. The company says the Duskin Museum in the city of Suita, where ...
Tokyo museum showing Buddha statue drawings by Tohoku disaster survivors living in temporary housing
An art exhibit in Tokyo is showing 311 drawings of statues of Buddha by those who are still living in temporary housing in areas hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, NHK reported on Tuesday. The exhibit is held at Tokyo ...
