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Interview: Tomotaka Yasui

Modern maki-e "I don't express otaku culture," says Tomotaka Yasui at the Megumi Ogita gallery in Ginza, where he is...

Over a long career, photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto seems to have specialized in capturing light in some of its duller moments: bouncing o...

Since last year (2004), when an additional ten countries joined the European Union, all eyes have been on Europe. The perfect person to ...

Japan can now wipe the political dribble from its chin and step into its own freshly pressed and creased pair of democratic long pants. ...

When Edo Japan was forced to open its doors to the outside World in 1854, it set off a train of events that destabilized the feudal orde...

If, as the British writer L.P. Hartley famously wrote, “the past is a foreign country,” then this paperback reprint of an 1880 travelogu...

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