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MUSEUMS

Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2015
Nature museum's exhibition for preschoolers proves popular
The National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo has drawn more than 20,000 visitors to a new scientific exhibition aimed at preschoolers since it opened mid-July.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Sep 11, 2015
Art heist in LA replaces Warhol prints with fakes
Nine original Andy Warhol prints were quietly stolen from a Los Angeles movie business and replaced with fakes in an art heist that went undetected for years, police and court documents showed on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2015
Taiji Whale Museum quits aquarium body over dolphin hunt ban
The whale museum in the town of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, has withdrawn from the national aquarium industry body in protest at its ban on accepting dolphins captured in drive hunts, museum officials said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2015
Good grief! Tokyo Peanuts museum will only be temporary
The world's second museum dedicated to Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang will open in Tokyo's Roppongi shopping and entertainment district in March for a period of 2½ years, according to Sony Creative Products Inc., the comic strip's exclusive agent in Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 28, 2015
Artist Aida defiant over latest work
Controversial artist Makoto Aida is refusing to bow to demands that he alter a politically sensitive submission to the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo after museum chiefs and Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials deemed it unsuitable for children.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jun 8, 2015
Toyota museum breaking records as tourists flock to Nagoya
A museum dedicated to the history of Toyota Motor Corp. is attracting so many foreign visitors that attendance has set a new all-time high.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Apr 30, 2015
Portrait of Bach heading back to Leipzig
A portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach that was one of only two known to have been painted in Leipzig during his lifetime will return after more than 265 years to the German city where he worked and is buried.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Apr 5, 2015
Valuable 18th-century painting rediscovered in California home
An 18th-century painting long considered lost has been found in the home of a California lawyer whose family had held the piece for generations but was unaware of its origins.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jan 11, 2015
Architecture museum's Ghibli exhibition a major hit in Koganei
The Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum in western Tokyo is drawing big crowds with a special exhibition of unique buildings and structures that appear in Studio Ghibli's famous animated films.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 21, 2014
Irish-American abstract artist Sean Scully sets sights on China
Irish-American abstract artist Sean Scully counts Irish rocker Bono among his pals and collectors. He wouldn't be unhappy if some of China's 1.4 billion people also took a shine to his art being displayed at a retrospective in Shanghai later this month.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 19, 2014
Gehry's Vuitton art museum to set sail in Paris
Billowing sails of glass will join the Eiffel Tower and the Basilica of the Sacred Heart as permanent fixtures of the Paris skyline this month when the new Louis Vuitton contemporary art museum, designed by Frank Gehry, opens to the public.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Sep 12, 2014
Kyushu museum uses 3-D tech to replicate artifacts
Setsuo Imazu of the Kyushu National Museum was greatly impressed and surprised when he viewed a nearly complete replica of a seated statue of Kukai in July because it so closely resembled the original, which is kept at Kongobuji, the head temple of Koyasan Shingon Buddhism, on Mount Koya in Wakayama Prefecture.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 2014
Train buff in Hokkaido builds his own museum
An architect in Otofuke, Hokkaido, has transformed part of his household into a railway museum.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 23, 2013
Woman who 'found' Renoir at flea market disputes museum's claim
Martha Fuqua, "Renoir Girl," has denounced as "improperly authenticated" a museum's evidence that it owns the long-lost Renoir painting she claims and has asked a judge to dismiss the Baltimore Museum of Art's motion for summary judgment.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2013
More museums exhibit accessibility
In an effort to promote inclusivity and expose their collections to as wide an audience as possible, art museums are improving accessibility by offering special tours for disabled visitors and on-site baby-sitting services.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 9, 2013
Metro government to extend hours of arts, sports facilities
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will move up or extend business hours at its arts and sports facilities this fall and winter to accommodate more diverse lifestyles.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Aug 22, 2012
Take the kids back in time this summer
Japanese people are rediscovering the charms of a simpler life, if only for a weekend.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jun 13, 2010
Beneath the Battle of Okinawa
In 1966, Dave Davenport was a mystery to his fellow U.S. Air Force clerks on Okinawa. Whereas they would dress up in their finest threads and make for the clubs of Koza in their free time, Davenport would don the oldest clothes he owned and jump on a local bus heading into the middle of nowhere.
When will Japan intervene to support the yen?
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki has reiterated the government's readiness to take an appropriate action as the yen continues to slide against the U.S. dollar.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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