Remember that Japanese comedian who set the internet on fire with a song about a pineapple apple pen? Now PikoTaro, the leopard print-clad singer endorsed by the likes of Justin Bieber and MIA is ...

That’s the significance of “Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945,” a major show now at the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach. In addition to hundreds of paintings, brochures and ...

But I had one more item on my personal agenda that I couldn’t possibly leave Japan without — or at least, without looking for it. That desideratum, of course, was the fountain pen, and there ...

Now her newest book “Deco Mushi Cakes” (Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, Singapore, 2015, 80 pages) comes to shelves in English for the first time, and Junko shakes things up a bit.

Japanese art deco — what in the world could that be? This is not a unique question. As an exhibition of Japanese art deco objects has traveled around the country during the past year ...

Nendo, a Tokyo-based design with a knack for making pretty much everything, designed a ballpoint pen. The Blen — made for the Japanese pen company Zebra — is a subtle, $2.50 upgrade on the everyday ...

I’m sorry to see the shift because there always has been confusion about what properly constitutes Art Deco, and a formal approach to its Japanese variants might have brought some clarity overall.

The "Otona no Yaruki Pen" (motivation pen for grown-ups) device is seen in a photo provided by Kokuyo Co. TOKYO -- An internet of things (IoT) device developed by a Japanese stationery ...

They were sharing a bit of their own culture, with a nod to their pen pals, who would be preparing to ring in the Year of the Rat, the next zodiac sign coming up in Japan’s 12-year cycle.