The Bank of Japan helped push equities to 26-year highs, but exit strategy questions remain MASAYUKI YUDA, Nikkei staff writer ...
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Aljazeera: Japan's Newest and Largest Mosque Opens its Doors
The Ahmadi Muslim community in Japan hopes its new mosque will promote intercultural understanding and dialogue by Michael Penn ...
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Interview: Yoshio Taniguchi
Some Westerners, when faced with Oriental creativity, have a tendency to gush a bit. Instead of taking a calm, rational, inquisitive v...
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RECORDS OF THE RISING SUN
The world's most destructive earthquake. An examination of Japan’s world-beaters yields a “superlative” understanding of the cou...
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Ito Jakuchu: Quite the rare bird
Cockatoo, 1771 The best time to see Jakuchu was back in 2000 or 2006, when there were two big exhibitions that aimed to re-evaluate th...
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TAKESHI KITANO: PAINTER'S KID
Making movies is great if you want the fame and excitement, but for real artistic fulfillment there’s nothing like becoming an actual p...
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INTERVIEW: HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
What Lies Behind Our Love of Clothes There’s something counter-intuitive about photographic artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. While most a...
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Photo: "Mujin" Store
Click to enlarge In Japan, thanks to monoculturalism, high social trust, and Confucian morality, it is possible to have "mujin&qu...
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The War Art of Saburo Miyamoto
The House of Death (ca. 1945-46) One of the most astounding and, indeed, slightly unnerving pictures in the collection of the Museum o...
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