Graffiti - art or vandalism?

The Wellcome Collection in London presents more than 300 works for the first major display of Japanese Outsider Art in the UK. The 46 artists represented in the Souzou show are residents and day attendees at social welfare institutions across Japan.

President Ma Ying-jeou met on the morning of May 9 with Chairperson Ayahiko Matsumoto of the Association to Promote Japanese-Taiwanese Sports & Culture, as well as descendants of renowned Japanese hydraulic engineer Yoichi Hatta (1886-1942). The ...

Under the new U.S. patent reform act, America Invents Act (AIA), the scope of prior art for making novelty and obviousness determinations has been broadened in some aspects but, in some cases, has been narrowed. With regard to making such ...

Taipei, May 2 (CNA) A group of Taiwanese artists has teamed up with their Japanese counterparts to launch a "white house" art project in Japan with the aim of lightening the spirits of earthquake victims there. From May 1-5, 36 Taiwanese and ...

Woodstock (2013) by Zhang Zheyi Photo: Courtesy of Art Beijing Tomoko (2011 ) by Hiroto Kitagawa from Japan Photos: Courtesy of Art Beijing The organizers of the latest incarnation of China's premier art fair are hoping that its renewed focus on ...

Victorious: (From left) Hwang, Toh and Chin (right) proudly show their medals at the Japan W.A.T.A International Taekwondo championships in Osaka, Japan recently. With them is team leader and coach Hoh. DESPITE fielding only a three-man team, the ...

HIKONE, SHIGA PREF. At an April 17 meeting of the government's Industrial Competitiveness Council, professor Heizo Takenaka of Keio University and some other members representing the private sector proposed 23 concrete schemes as the initial step ...

Overview We are a clean technology company that provides state-of-the-art technologies for gas and liquid purification by manufacturing ceramic silicon carbide filters. For more than a decade, we have developed and manufactured products of ...

The number of Shinto shrines in Japan has changed over centuries due to various political and social changes. There were about 190,000 shrines during the early Meiji Era (1867-1912), before a drastic change came about in the merging of shrines and ...