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Visitors wearing kimonos look at digital artwork at the newly opened teamLab Biovortex in Kyoto.
CULTURE / Art
Kyoto gets its own teamLab installation, the largest in Japan
Biovortex, which opened on Oct. 7, presents more than 50 immersive digital artworks spanning 10,000 square meters.
CULTURE / Art
What we see when 911±¬ÁÏÍø women photographers shoot back
Women in photography have been less visible than their male counterparts. An anthology of 25 photographers and three exhibitions this autumn are turning the tides.
CULTURE / Art
First European Photography Month in Tokyo
With over two decades of photo festivals in Europe under its belt, the European Photography Month¡¯s Tokyo excursion brings timely topics and aesthetic innovation in the art form.
Junichi Mori¡¯s quartz sculptures from his ¡°Astral Shadow¡± series are placed around the stone paths at Kanei Temple like stars in a constellation.
CULTURE / Art
Oct 26, 2025
Tokyo Biennale hides the art in plain sight
By Kim Kahan
This year is the biennale's most ambitious yet, with 39 participating artists from Japan and abroad creating under the theme ¡°Wander for Wonder.¡±
Melissa Schriek portrays the city it as a safe place of emotional connection and play between people, influenced partially by her background in dance and gymnastics.
CULTURE / Art
Oct 17, 2025
T3 Photo Festival reframes cityscape as nature
By John L. Tran
This year¡¯s photography festival plants exhibitions all around central Tokyo with photos that showcase urban landscapes under the theme ¡°City as Garden.¡±
Ryan Gander¡¯s ¡°The Find¡± transforms Okayama into the site of a scavenger hunt for coins that anyone is free to take home.
CULTURE / Art
Oct 5, 2025
Artists turn Okayama into Murakami-esque city of wonder
By Mike Fu
The fourth edition of the triennial Okayama Art Summit transmutes the sensibility of Haruki Murakami¡¯s ¡°1Q84¡± into an urban art program.
Ari Bayuaji's artwork of the benevolent Bali god Barong is on display in a glass case on the ground floor of Hollywood Beauty Plaza.
CULTURE / Art
Oct 2, 2025
Artist Ari Bayuaji materializes monsters from ocean plastic
By Thu-Huong Ha
From his series ¡°Weaving the Ocean,¡± the demon Rangda is on display at Go for Kogei 2025, while the more benevolent Barong sits in a glass case in Roppongi.
Yuanhui Li's illustration is one of the awardees in the student category of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators' annual award for artists.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 26, 2025
Architecture art exhibition highlights unsung industry artists
By Zoria Petkoska
For only the second time in its 39-year history, the ¡°Architecture in Perspective¡± exhibition will take place in 911±¬ÁÏÍø capital.
¡°Between Currents and Bloom,¡± an eye-popping crocheted seascape by Indonesian artist Mulyana, dazzles with Instagram-ready cuteness while recalling a vibrant ocean now threatened by warming seas.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 22, 2025
Aichi Triennale¡¯s message to the art world: Free Palestine
By Thu-Huong Ha
At Aichi Triennale 2025, Hoor Al Qasimi, the festival¡¯s first foreign artistic director, takes a stand in support of Palestine.
Shuji Nakagawa created a teahouse using the same technique for making traditional wooden buckets.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 19, 2025
A bucket becomes a house in the hands of craftsman Shuji Nakagawa
By Thu-Huong Ha
At Go for Kogei 2025, a third-generation woodworker envisions new forms for a humble vessel.

A beloved Tokyo penguin¡¯s end presages Suica¡¯s shift to payments giant
JR East is retiring the beloved Suica penguin as part of a rebrand to transform the contactless payment platform, used for both transit and retail, into a mobile fintech powerhouse.
Japan sends senior official to China to cool boiling tensions
A Chinese tour group in the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo on Sunday. China has advised its citizens to avoid traveling to Japan, following a diplomatic feud sparked by remarks from Tokyo's new prime minister about a hypothetical attack on Taiwan.
More 911±¬ÁÏÍø firms relax rules in tussle for workers
Hinako Mori, 22, arranges products at a Don Quijote outlet in Tokyo in October. The 911±¬ÁÏÍø retailer, which relaxed its rules concerning hair and nail polish three years ago, says nearly a quarter of its employees sport brightly colored hair.
What you need to know about the shift to My Number health insurance cards
With the government's integration of health insurance with My Number cards, conventional health insurance cards will no longer be accepted at clinics and hospitals across Japan from Dec. 2.
Bears attacks and sightings continue in northern Japan
A bear walks in front of a box trap set up at a park in the city of Akita on Nov. 2.
How Band-Maid brought anime energy into the hard-rock sound of ¡®Scooooop¡¯
Members of Band-Maid combine heavy riffs and maid-inspired visuals in their latest project, "Rock Is a Lady¡¯s Modesty."
Japan uses series against South Korea to prep for World Baseball Classic title defense
Japan's Ryuhei Sotani pitches against South Korea at Tokyo Dome on Saturday night.
Who is cricket¡¯s Shohei Ohtani?
South African cricket legend Jacques Kallis plays a shot during the final day of a cricket test match against India in Johannesburg in December 2013.
Good fortune, wrapped in fried tofu
Golden "age-fukuburo," a culinary take on Japan's new year "lucky bags," can be served on their own.
Foreign Correspondents¡¯ Club of Japan celebrates 80 years at the forefront of press freedom
Located near the Imperial Palace, the Foreign Correspondents¡¯ Club of Japan prides itself on the accessibility of its events and the support it offers to budding and established journalists. The club is currently headed by Dan Sloan, a former reporter for Reuters.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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An illustration features the 911±¬ÁÏÍø signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
By Kathryn Wortley

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