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EXHIBITIONS

Miwa Yanagi¡¯s ¡°Elevator Girl House¡± series skewers the superficiality of gender roles through staged images.
CULTURE / Art
Jul 10, 2026
Japan¡¯s largest exhibition of women photographers rights a wrong in cultural history
An international exhibition for a book about Japanese women in the photographic arts has its homecoming in Tokyo.
Kazama's woodcut print ¡°Dyslympics 2680¡± satirizes and compares the 1964 and 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
CULTURE / Art
Jul 5, 2026
Sachiko Kazama¡¯s art bites back at a cruel society
Sachiko Kazama has made a name for herself as a sharp satirist. Her art from spanning a nearly four-decade long career is now on display in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture.
Artist Yoshitoshi Kanemaki's exhibition "Emergence Entity" at Shibuya Parco is a rare chance to see a bigger collection of his works together, as they sell out fast.
CULTURE / Art
Jun 24, 2026
This is not AI. It¡¯s intentionally, painstakingly human-made art.
Yoshitoshi Kanemaki¡¯s handcarved sculptures have a digital aesthetic, but they are firmly anchored in three-dimensional space.
Mizue Fukagawa's works explore of the fragility of memory and the regenerative beauty of nature.
CULTURE / Art
Jun 8, 2026
Emerging Kansai artists to watch
Among the artists featured at Art Osaka, several offered particularly engaging takes on the ubiquity of digital technology and relationships between people and nature.
The Spain-themed exhibition at the Tottori Sand Museum re-creates several of Antoni Gaudi¡¯s structures, most notably the Sagrada Familia basilica.
CULTURE / Art
May 17, 2026
Spain, sculpted in sand at Tottori museum¡¯s landmark 20th exhibition
The Tottori Sand Museum marks its 20th exhibition with towering sculptures inspired by Spain¡¯s history, art and architecture.
Visitors can explore a life-size version of Carl Fredricksen¡¯s house in the ¡°Mundo Pixar Experience¡± exhibition¡¯s ¡°Up¡± area.
CULTURE / Film
May 15, 2026
¡®Mundo Pixar Experience¡¯ feels like a homecoming in Tokyo
Packed crowds and long queues aside, the sprawling exhibition succeeds by transforming animated nostalgia into a tactile experience.
The latest head of one of Japan's most acclaimed ceramicist families believes that to preserve traditional crafts, they must adapt in some ways to the present.
LIFE / Style & Design
May 12, 2026
Ohi Chozaemon XI: ¡®We cannot make tradition the absolute rule¡¯
The 11th head of the Ohi ware school of ceramics believes his craft can only survive if history is a set of guidelines, not laws.
Demonstrators from Pussy Riot group held a protest at Venice Biennale's International Art Exhibition on May 7, 2026.
CULTURE / Art
May 8, 2026
At the Venice Biennale, the anger isn¡¯t about the art
The mass resignation of the Biennale jury over Israel¡¯s and Russia¡¯s participation was followed by protests. The art is getting drowned out in the controversy.
In her 90s, South Korean sculptor Kim Yun Shin still wields a chain saw with quiet focus, refining a craft she honed over decades spent far away from home.
CULTURE / Art
May 7, 2026
South Korean chain saw artist carves a name for herself at 91
Long overlooked in her home country, sculptor Kim Yun Shin has recently gained recognition and is featuring in a sweeping retrospective at Hoam Museum of Art.
WHAT Museum¡¯s group exhibition ¡°Corrugated/Coral ¡ª Eight Practices to Project Architecture Afar¡± shows installations such as ¡°Inter-Embodiment¡± by Altemy and artist Risa Kagami
CULTURE / Art
May 2, 2026
Conceptual art offers glimpse inside architects¡¯ minds
WHAT Museum¡¯s group exhibition ¡°Corrugated/Coral ¡ª Eight Practices to Project Architecture Afar¡± aims to visualize how humans influence architecture and vice versa.
The Venice Biennale dates back to 1895, when the first International Art Exhibition was organized.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
May 1, 2026
Jury of Italy¡¯s Venice Biennale resigns en masse
Following the resignations, the Biennale said it has decided that the award ceremony, previously scheduled for May 9, will take place on Nov. 22.
¡°The Dream of the Fisherman¡¯s Wife,¡± a rarely exhibited print by Hokusai, will be on display at the Shinjuku Kabukicho Noh Theater for a limited time, from May 1 to 10.?
CULTURE / Art
Apr 25, 2026
Hokusai¡¯s erotic art on display at a Kabukicho noh theater
¡°Kabukicho in Full Bloom¡± is the third in a series of shunga art exhibitions organized by the Smappa!Group, which operates host bars and restaurants across Shinjuku¡¯s Kabukicho.
A sprawling retrospective on Moriyama, a giant of Japanese street photography, is on view at the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, as part of annual international photo festival Kyotographie.
CULTURE / Art
Apr 23, 2026
Kyotographie¡¯s Daido Moriyama retrospective resonates in an age of endless images
A dense, sprawling retrospective at the annual photo festival reflects Daido Moriyama¡¯s lifelong question: What does a photo do?
<i>Y¨­kai</I> emerged in the cultural imagination when Japanese people gave ¡°names and forms to what they could not explain¡± and continue to be portrayed in the popular media of every era.
CULTURE / Art
Apr 18, 2026
Immersive exhibition brings Japanese folk monsters to life
A digital spectacle of supernatural creatures entertains and educates at the ¡°Yokai Immersive Experience Exhibition¡± in Shinagawa Ward.
Sculptor Kohei Nawa&#039;s first solo show in Los Angeles debuts 20 new artworks this month.
CULTURE / Art
Apr 17, 2026
At Kohei Nawa¡¯s studio, the world is seen through glass bubbles
Kohei Nawa¡¯s ¡°PixCell¡± series, a play on the words pixel and cell, explores the way we view objects by covering them in glass beads that magnify and distort.
The Margiela exhibition transforms Kudan House by removing most of its vintage furniture and covering everything in semitransparent plastic sheets.
CULTURE / Art
Apr 17, 2026
In Tokyo, Margiela¡¯s art exhibition creates a haunting house
The brief but significant Tokyo exhibition offers a look at how Martin Margiela¡¯s mind works in his new chosen field of fine art.
The inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Narratives Takanawa is organized around the theme of spirals and searching for them in science, art and our own bodies.
CULTURE / Art
Apr 3, 2026
Museum of Narratives is rife with possibilities
Part museum, part performance venue, the ambitious Museum of Narratives aims to make Shinagawa a cultural hub.
Outside, at the western entrance of Edo-Tokyo Museum, one of the spaces redesigned under architect Shohei Shigematsu, is an installation of torii gate-inspired structures.
CULTURE / Art
Mar 27, 2026
What¡¯s new (and what¡¯s not) at the reopened Edo-Tokyo Museum
After four years, the extensive history museum reopens with new large-scale models, digital screens and some finer tune-ups.
Prototypes of bronze statues of the Straw Hat Pirates crew members from "One Piece" on display at the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art on Friday
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Mar 24, 2026
Quake recovery exhibition opens in Kumamoto with ¡®One Piece¡¯ tie-in
The exhibition showcasing reconstruction efforts after the April 2016 earthquakes runs from Friday through May 24.
Yoshitoshi Kanemaki¡¯s 16-faced wooden sculpture ¡°Refrain Caprice¡± is carved using the traditional Buddhist technique of "ichiboku-zukuri," in which an entire figure is made from a single log.
CULTURE / Art
Mar 20, 2026
Art Fair Tokyo blends craft, pop and contemporary art in milestone 20th edition
More than 140 galleries took part at the event held last weekend at the Tokyo International Forum.
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&#039;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&#039;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&#039;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&#039; 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.

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