“We’ll defeat the Japanese in the end,” said Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, “but we shouldn’t look at the war with them through rose-colored glasses.” Secretary Stimson has had a ...

According to the National Printing Bureau, the subjects should be well-known to the Japanese people and someone to take pride in. Their portraits need to be rendered as precisely as possible to ...

The portrait apparently was executed by Hokusai in his early 40s, based on kanji characters that state it was done in 1803 in the Japanese imperial ... after viewing a photo of the image.

Yasumasa Morimura is a contemporary Japanese appropriation artist whose work consists of inserting his face and body into portraits of artists and celebrities from history. Similar to American ...

An iconic silkscreen print by Andy Warhol of actress Elizabeth Taylor went under the hammer for 2.3 billion yen ($18.9 million) in Tokyo, the highest bid ever seen at an auction in Japan ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan began circulating its first new banknotes in 20 years on Wednesday, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education institutions in ...

Senjiro Hayashi founded Hayashi Studio and it was later operated by other Japanese Canadian photographers, including Tokitaro Matsubuchi. Over the decades, the studio became an integral part of ...