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 ...

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

Until now, these works have not been widely distributed outside Japan, where the most familiar are prints from the Edo period (1603-1868), ukiyo-e ("images of the floating world") by Hokusai ...

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 ...

A sunfish at a municipal aquarium undergoing renovation in this west Japan city became unwell, but recovered after its tank ...

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 ...

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 ...

23.5 x 17.8 cm. (9.3 x 7 in.) ...