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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

TOKYO (AFP) - The Japanese comedian who stormed the world with his nonsense "Pineapple-pen" hit and even entertained US President Donald Trump is back with a new message: Wash your hands!

But when conjuring up mental images of this modern style, your mind might not automatically leap to Japan. “Deco Japan,” which just opened at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, flaunts nearly 200 ...