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SPORTS
Sep 2, 2020
Sports museum launches initiative to protect Japan's athletic history
The move by the Prince Chichibu Memorial Sports Museum and Library comes after the first Olympic medal won by a Japanese athlete was discovered to be missing.
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 23, 2020
Staying real for the sake of art: Museums and festivals proceed with caution
Japan's artistic institutions stress the importance of in-person exhibitions and events after months of closures and COVID-19-related fears.
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CULTURE / Art
Jun 25, 2020
Watari-um celebrates a mother's legacy
Thirty years on, the Watari siblings encourage the quirky and unusual as the curators of the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art.
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CULTURE / Art
Jun 18, 2020
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Spiritual recultivation in apocalyptic times
The inaugural exhibition of the newly minted Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art highlights the career of acclaimed photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto.
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JAPAN
Apr 9, 2020
Irene Hirano, head of U.S.-Japan Council and widow of Sen. Inouye, dies
Irene Hirano, head of the U.S.-Japan Council and widow of the late U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, died Tuesday in Los Angeles following an extended illness, the council said Wednesday. She was 71.
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CULTURE / Art
Apr 1, 2020
Japan’s art institutions struggle to cope with the COVID-19 crisis
Since the quarantine of the Diamond Princess, Japan has gone from being one of the world’s most at-risk countries to lucky outlier, to being again fearful of COVID-19 getting out of control.
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CULTURE / Art
Feb 26, 2020
Bamboo crafts: Woven into Japan's art history
The Abbey Collection takes viewers through a modern history of bamboo crafting, from its late recognition as fine art in the 19th century to the elaborate artistic creations of today.
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JAPAN / Politics
Jan 29, 2020
Russia slams Japan's National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday criticized exhibits displayed at Japan's National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty, which reopened last week.
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JAPAN
Jan 22, 2020
Japan rejects South Korean protest over reopened national territory museum
The Japanese government rejected on Tuesday a protest by South Korea against the reopening of the National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty in Tokyo.
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JAPAN
Jan 21, 2020
Japan's sole doll museum unveils collection of more than 5,000 items
A museum devoted to dolls and other items from around the world, including Japanese dolls from the 17th to the 19th centuries, unveiled its extensive collection for the first time in the city of Saitama on Tuesday.
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CULTURE / Art
Jan 15, 2020
Nino Caruso's monumental contribution
More than 100 pieces, documents and designs have been selected for the Nino Caruso exhibition 'Forms of Memory and Space — the world's first retrospective of the Italian ceramist-cum-sculptor's work since his death in 2017.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jan 14, 2020
Oldest stuff on Earth found inside meteorite that hit Australia in 1969, dating back about 7 billion years
A meteorite that crashed into rural southeastern Australia in a fireball in 1969 contained the oldest material ever found on Earth, stardust that predated the formation of our solar system by billions of years, scientists said Monday.
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LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Jan 13, 2020
Picture the fun at a manga museum
Built into a repurposed elementary school, the Kyoto International Manga Museum, one of the most impressive manga repositories in the world, will keep kids entertained for hours.
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LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Nov 18, 2019
All aboard the Kyoto Railway Museum
Few countries have embraced rail travel like Japan, so it's no surprise that one of the best train museums in the world is found here: the kid-friendly Kyoto Railway Museum.
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JAPAN
Nov 11, 2019
Exhibition about Japanese American A-bomb victims opens at Los Angeles museum
An exhibition featuring the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki opened Saturday in Los Angeles, telling the stories of Japanese Americans who were in the two cities when the bombs were dropped in August 1945.
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CULTURE / Art
Sep 24, 2019
Art at a science museum: When worlds collide
The premise of 'Illuminating Landscapes: The Integration of Art and Science,' as designer Taku Satoh puts it, is to explore 'art and science together, not separated, as is too common in today's world.'
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LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 22, 2019
Kengo Kuma: Seeing the forest for the trees in Eskisehir
Nestled between the traditional buildings of Turkey's city of Eskisehir, Kengo Kuma & Associates' design of the new Odunpazari Modern Museum is a love letter to Seljuk, Ottoman and Turkish history.
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JAPAN
Sep 12, 2019
Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo to open to public on Saturday
An opening ceremony was held Thursday for the Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo, which aims to showcase the history and significance of the games in the buildup to the 2020 Tokyo Games.
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Rugby
Sep 6, 2019
Yokohama commemorates its rugby history ahead of RWC
With the Rugby World Cup starting in just two weeks, a monument was unveiled Thursday, marking the city's place in the 150-year history of the sport in Japan.
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CULTURE / Art
Aug 6, 2019
'What Do You See When You Look at Pictures?': Reading between the brushstrokes
'What Do You See When You Look at Pictures?,' the current exhibition at the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, presents itself as an exercise in visual literacy and is full of thoughtful provocations.

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