“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 ...

Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to ...

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 ...

but you are still Japanese. We could not trust you.’ With an American flag as a backdrop, a newly drafted George Hirano (left), 18, posed for a portrait with his mother, Hisa Hirano, and father ...

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 era. Only a few original portraits drawn by ...

He's also an artist who makes portraits from used wine corks ... and he gets used corks sent in from all over Japan. Sommelier and wine cork artist Kubo Tomonori ...

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 ...

Compared to landscape or street photography, taking studio-based portraits can seem a big challenge – but as Japanese-antiques expert David Thatcher reveals, with the right teachers and attitude ...

The 10,000-yen banknotes featuring the portrait of Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), an entrepreneur and business leader in early modern Japan known as “the father of Japanese capitalism,” were ...

That's the case in Matt Tyrnauer's latest project, Nobu, a glowing portrait of Nobu Matsuhisa. The Japanese chef is best ...