Scholten Japanese Art is presenting, On The Vanguard: Meiji Period Woodblock Prints, a two-part exhibition, with thirty prints in each section, exploring the creative expression seen in Meiji-era ...

TOKYO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Shigeru Ishiba, tapped to be Japan's next prime minister, may cause diplomatic headaches for the U.S. with proposals to revamp Tokyo's closest alliance by locking ...

By Motoko Rich and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo The elite power brokers of Japan’s governing party appeared to take public sentiment into account on Friday when they chose Shigeru Ishiba ...

Last week, two prints of Hokusai’s The Great Wave fetched over $800,000 each at auction in New York. Both Christie’s and Bonhams sold a print of the iconic ukiyo-e seascape in sales that coincided ...

Rain. You forgot your umbrella. That’s what’s happening in this Japanese woodblock print — only it’s Tokyo (then called Edo), the year is 1857, and we’re crossing the Sumida River.

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Next month, Heritage will offer to the public a thoughtful selection of works from Louis Meisel’s storied collection in its October 15 Louis and Susan Meisel Pin-Up & Pop Art Showcase Auction.

Japan's health ministry on Tuesday approved the production and sale of a new medicine for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in Japan, raising hopes among patients. In a doctor-led clinical trial ...

“I knew they were something,” Christina Kean says about the three Japanese woodblock prints she came across ... Kean says she and her husband watched the sale online and enjoyed seeing the ...

Washington — With a deal still in flux, the U.S. auto industry keeps pushing top government officials to allow the proposed acquisition of United States Steel Corp. by Japanese rival Nippon ...

Japan's population is in freefall, with fewer babies born, more elderly in the workforce, and a shrinking number of residents overall. The country faces a demographic crisis that policymakers fear ...