Oct. 31-March 6

The Mori Art Museum is holding a special solo exhibition of contemporary artist Takashi Murakami. It has been 14 years since Murakami¡¯s last large-scale exhibition in Japan, though he has been continually internationally praised, working on giant installations at prestigious venues, such as France¡¯s Palace of Versailles and New York¡¯s Rockefeller Center.

For this exhibition, he makes postwar Japan the main theme as he brings together the country¡¯s otaku culture (anime, manga and more) with traditional Japanese art. His 2012 work ¡°The 500 Arhats,¡± considered to be the largest painting in history (about 100 meters wide), is being shown in Japan for the first time and was originally produced as a way for Murakami to thank Qatar for providing aid to Japan soon after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

Mori Art Museum; 53F Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Roppongi Stn. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. (Tue. till 5 p.m.). ?1,600. 03-5777-8600;