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RECORDS OF THE RISING SUN

The world's most destructive earthquake. An examination of Japan’s world-beaters yields a “superlative” understanding of the cou...

Cockatoo, 1771 The best time to see Jakuchu was back in 2000 or 2006, when there were two big exhibitions that aimed to re-evaluate th...

Making movies is great if you want the fame and excitement, but for real artistic fulfillment there’s nothing like becoming an actual p...

What Lies Behind Our Love of Clothes There’s something counter-intuitive about photographic artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. While most a...

Click to enlarge In Japan, thanks to monoculturalism, high social trust, and Confucian morality, it is possible to have "mujin...

The House of Death (ca. 1945-46) One of the most astounding and, indeed, slightly unnerving pictures in the collection of the Museum o...

Because Japanese cities are overwhelmingly built from wood, they are extremely susceptible to fire, so every spring there is a fire pr...

Men Join to Form a Man: Looks Fierce But is Really Nice, c.1847 The big ukiyo-e exhibition this year has been the Toshusai Sharaku sho...

Neil Munro (left) with an Ainu. Perhaps the greatest champion of the Ainu people was the Scottish doctor, Neil Gordon Munro. Born in...