The annual chime market is happening now through July 21 at the Kawasaki Daishi Heikenji Temple in Kawasaki, Japan. This is ...

From cherry blossoms to neon skylines, Japan in 2025 is a symphony of contrasts waiting to be explored. Here is a curated ...

Why do ghosts float? It's likely thanks to painter Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795) whose spectral work is exhibited on one day each ...

Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan. Located in Kyoto's northern outskirts, the temple was ...

Japan’s art-market domination peaked with the 1990 sale of van Gogh’s “Portrait of Dr. Gachet” for $82.5 million. Credit... Peter Morgan/Associated Press.

Japan’s art islands gain a new attraction with museum designed by Tadao Ando. Naoshima New Museum of Art, showing work by contemporary Asian artists, opens on 31 May. Lisa Movius.

Transience has come to inform so much of Japan’s culture — even its sense of self. T commissioned the Tokyo-based fine-art photographer Moe Suzuki to travel from her home to Kyoto, the city of ...

TOKYO -- Japan is charting a new cultural corridor for international visitors -- one that flows seamlessly from the future-oriented Expo 2025 in Osaka to the slow art allure of the Setouchi ...