To celebrate its 110th anniversary, the Japan Society has commissioned a new exhibition by the Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, ”Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise,” which explores one ...

ROME -- A 19th century fresco painting depicting a scene where a Japanese delegation meets with Pope Gregory XIII in 1585 has been discovered here at ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art's big spring foray into Japanese modernism provides a fresh perspective on the 20th century, while also highlighting how the museum still needs to explore Western art ...

The nub of scholar Michio Kitahara's revelation is that throughout the latter half of the 16th century and into the 17th, Portuguese traders sold Japanese as slaves overseas, so that "toward the ...

The jars were "the Chinese version of Tupperware," says Andrew Watsky, a professor of Japanese art history at Princeton. ... In the 16th century, a tea ritual arose around them.