Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to ...

According to the National Printing Bureau, the subjects should be well-known to the Japanese people and someone to take pride in. Their portraits need to be rendered as precisely as possible to ...

Compared to landscape or street photography, taking studio-based portraits can seem a big challenge – but as Japanese-antiques expert David Thatcher reveals, with the right teachers and attitude ...

but you are still Japanese. We could not trust you.’ With an American flag as a backdrop, a newly drafted George Hirano (left), 18, posed for a portrait with his mother, Hisa Hirano, and father ...

The Victory Theatre Center presents the world premiere of Four Women in Red, a provocative new play written by Laura Shamas ...

The 10,000-yen banknotes featuring the portrait of Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), an entrepreneur and business leader in early modern Japan known as “the father of Japanese capitalism,” were ...

The portrait apparently was executed by Hokusai in his early 40s, based on kanji characters that state it was done in 1803 in the Japanese imperial era. Only a few original portraits drawn by ...

Yasumasa Morimura is a contemporary Japanese appropriation artist whose work consists of inserting his face and body into portraits of artists and celebrities from history. Similar to American ...