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HERE COMES THE TENGU

Maybe it's because of the big nose and the red face — like some grotesque characterization of Europeans — or it might just be the au...

Fireworks The curse of early Western-style Japanese painters is the charge of derivativeness. Simply because they embraced foreign ar...

Mother and Child (2008) It's not the meek who will inherit the Earth; it's the breeders. Japan has finally woken up to this ...

Yudangami (Careless Hair), 2009 A leading contemporary artist dissects Japan's "lost generation" For the Frankfurt School o...

28°26' North Latitude, by Yoshihiro Tatsuki, 1970 New technology spreads fastest if it can be adapted to a sexual purpose. Without the ...

The lusciousness of lacquer delights at the Mitsui One of the most common pieces of advice given to prospective art collectors is to acqui...

"The Japanese eat sushi all the time. And they are obsessed with kinky sex." These are just a couple of the prejudices that Weste...

There are two main arguments to support censorship. One is that it protects the tender sensibilities of a weak-minded public, prone to be l...

Illustration by Chip Boles When President Bill Clinton visited Japan in 1998, he attended an open town meeting where normal citizens...