The "modern girls" ("moga") who populate some of the works in the Japan Society's new exhibition, "Deco Japan," inhabit a world of contradiction: frivolity and militarism, bright colors and dark ...

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 ...

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 ...

If Japan isn’t the country that springs to mind when you think of Art Deco, it’s hardly surprising. The Japanese version of the international style of the 1920s and 1930s has been rediscovered ...

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 ...

Japan might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of Art Deco, but Ezra Pound’s 1934 edict to “make it new” resonated just as deeply there as it did in cultural capitals ...

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.