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London-based Ukranian photographer Varvara Uhlik shows a juxtaposition of childlike innocence and uncertainty in ¡°Sunshine, How Are You?¡± exhibited at ¡°Seeeu.¡±
CULTURE / Art
Oct 31, 2025
First European Photography Month in Tokyo
The brand new event brings timely topics and aesthetic innovation in photography with free exhibitions across Tokyo.
Melissa Schriek portrays the city it as a safe place of emotional connection and play between people, influenced partially by her background in dance and gymnastics.
CULTURE / Art
Oct 17, 2025
T3 Photo Festival reframes cityscape as nature
This year¡¯s photography festival plants exhibitions all around central Tokyo with photos that showcase urban landscapes under the theme ¡°City as Garden.¡±
One of Singapore Design¡¯s Week¡¯s lighter exhibitions is the ¡°Unnatural History Museum of Singapore,¡± where levity and engineering combat anxieties over ecological crises.
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 20, 2025
¡®Pluriversal¡¯ Singapore Design Week brings solution-oriented works
Running through Sept. 21, the design fair in the island city-state grapples with issues especially common in Japan.
The museum's curators selected a wide array of works from the archives for the milestone exhibitions. Among other photos, Nobuyoshi Araki's work from the series "Winter Journey" (1990) was included in the "Continuity and Change" exhibition that concluded in June.
CULTURE / Art
Jul 11, 2025
Rare vintage shots and first-time shows at TOP¡¯s 30th anniversary
The 2025 schedule includes two exhibitions showcasing the museum¡¯s permanent collection and three solo shows that focus on the work of Takano Ryudai, Luigi Ghirri and Pedro Costa.
This year¡¯s T3 Photo Festival features work by contemporary artists such as Fuyuhiko Takata, whose video piece ¡°Cut Suits¡±shows white-collar workers becoming naked by cutting their business attire off of each other.?
CULTURE / Art
Oct 18, 2024
T3 Photo Festival reflects on past and present of the medium
The Tokyo event marks the 50th anniversary of a landmark New York show of Japanese photography by juxtaposing images from that era with works by contemporary artists.
The eighth edition of the Yokohama Triennale, held at the Yokohama Museum of Art, opened in March this year with the theme ¡°Wild Grass: Our Lives."
CULTURE / Art
May 14, 2024
Yokohama Triennale¡¯s eighth edition makes room for context
Curators Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu¡¯s dynamic and vital show positions art at the vanguard of social change.
While the visual cues of cartoonishness, color and bounciness suggest fun and innocence, Saeborg¡¯s ¡°Saedog¡± performance nudges the audience toward contemplating captivity and confinement.
CULTURE / Art
May 2, 2024
Art award show offers trippy scenes of seeing and being seen
The two winners of the Tokyo Contemporary Art Award offer provocatively contrasting work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
Heidrun Holzfeind documents urban and rural scenes, such as two policemen on bicycles nonchalantly rolling down a street, in her video piece "The 49th Year." The footage is presented alongside incarcerated New Left group leader Toshihiko Kamata¡¯s writings about Japan¡¯s highly supervised society in the exhibition "News from K."
CULTURE / Art
Nov 26, 2023
¡®News From K¡¯ captures the oppression of landscape
Letters from prison by New Left group leader Toshihiko Kamata reveal a sense of limbo in Heidrun Holzfeind¡¯s new work.
Munakata Shiko's "Oshira-sama: The Flying Silkworm Deities" (1968)
CULTURE / Art
Oct 26, 2023
Major retrospective traces hero¡¯s journey of ¡®Japan¡¯s van Gogh¡¯
An exhibition of Shiko Munakata¡¯s works shows evidence of a charismatic character and a career that reflects Japan¡¯s changing relationship with the West.
Naoya Hatakeyama¡¯s ¡°Rikuzen Takata 2011-2023¡± is a display of hundreds of color contact prints of his hometown, Rikuzen Takata, Iwate Prefecture. The images show the shifting landscape of a place that was heavily affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.
CULTURE / Art
Oct 13, 2023
Tokyo Biennale 2023 seeks healing through art
The contemporary art festival creates safe spaces for its artists and their works by embracing a ¡°we accept anything¡± maxim.
Tokyo Gendai is described by fair organizers Art Assembly as Tokyo Bay¡¯s first international contemporary art fair in 30 years.
CULTURE / Art
Jul 22, 2023
Can a new art fair finally put Tokyo on the map?
Tokyo Gendai puts on a good event but still needs to change Japanese opinions on contemporary art.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 22, 2023
Can a new art fair finally put Tokyo on the map?
Tokyo Gendai puts on a good event but still needs to change Japanese opinions on contemporary art.
Japan Times
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / PERSPECTIVES
Apr 3, 2023
Global competitiveness of Japan¡¯s universities under scrutiny
The government is promising higher education institutions more capital to boost scientific research, but will this improve their international reputation?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 22, 2022
Sumida Mukojima Expo embraces an anarchic spirit
The local arts festival highlights the neighborhood of Kyojima¡¯s scrappy sense of character and its history of resilience.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 20, 2022
Memento mori: Photography in the face of the inevitable
The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum examines how we face our own mortality in the new exhibition ¡°TOP Collection: The Illumination of Life by Death.¡±
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 10, 2022
Artizon Museum¡¯s Jam Session puts photography into perspective
This year¡¯s edition of the museum¡¯s annual series, which invites contemporary artists to play off canonical pieces, nudges viewers into rethinking the art of seeing.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 1, 2021
Kyotographie taps into the echoes of hardship
The annual international photography festival reflects on times of major crisis.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 25, 2021
Tokyo¡¯s art scene looks back at recent history
Asian artists and curators examine the present through the lens of the past.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 12, 2020
Multidisciplinary collection in Tokyo depicts a paradox of restraint and restriction
The Fergus McCaffrey gallery has curated works that explore social and regional boundaries as well as the confinements of genre and convention.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 25, 2020
The subversive happiness of Tom of Finland¡¯s men
The exhibition, which is the first solo show of Touko Valio Laaksonen artwork in Japan, comes on the 100th anniversary of the artist¡¯s birth.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" ¡ª an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania
A Pokemon event is held in Jakarta on July 11
Low-income families in Japan cut food and air conditioning during summer break
Yumiko Watanabe, the chairperson of nonprofit Kidsdoor, explains the results of a survey in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on July 1.
Iran strikes on CIA facilities prompt questions about possible Russian role
Iranian drones are displayed in an undisclosed location in Iran, in this handout image obtained on Jan. 13, 2025.U.S. officials have acknowledged that Russia has ?provided targeting ?and other support for Iran in its drone strikes on U.S. targets in the Persian Gulf region.
The sci-fi sensibilities of electronic trio Black Boboi
Black Boboi was formed in 2018 when solo artists Julia Shortreed, Utena Kobayashi and Ermhoi came together under Kobayashi¡¯s newly founded label, Bindividual.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.
Can Japanese comedy get laughs in English? Yoshimoto Kogyo lets the jokes rip
Wes-P has millions of followers and his viral clips made him recognizable out of Japan.
The 180-day locals: Life on Japan¡¯s digital nomad visa
Christopher Flinn works remotely from Tokyo earlier this month. Japan issued 646 digital nomad visas in 2025, but tourism officials are hoping to increase that figure in the coming years, with Japan's relatively cheap cost of living and the weak yen seen as potential draws for young professionals.
Japan reveals hint of new defense spending target in fiscal blueprint
The Self-Defense Forces' Type 16 mobile combat vehicle fires during a joint live-fire drill with U.S. Marines as part of the annual Resolute Dragon exercises in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on June 28.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan¡¯s landscape that they often go unnoticed.
Why Japan¡¯s utility poles won¡¯t be disappearing anytime soon
By Alex K.T. Martin

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