The husband and business partner of designer Kate Spade, who died in an apparent suicide, said she suffered from depression and anxiety for many years.She ...

Jerry Maren, the last surviving munchkin from the classic 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” and the one who famously welcomed Dorothy to Munchkin Land, ...

Tetsuya Kumakawa speaks about his most recent project, “Cleopatra,” in a way that’s as grand as the Egyptian queen herself.“Nobody except me could have created ...

Japan has long had an image as a country of workaholics, dedicating their lives to the almighty yen. But recent Japanese movies, especially at the ...

An incorrigible playboy spots a young woman at a diner in Hawaii and is instantly smitten. After he plucks up the courage to talk to ...

Infrared imaging technology has helped peel back the layers of a Pablo Picasso painting on display in Japan, in the process revealing a page from ...

The 72nd annual Tony Awards are being presented at New York City’s storied Radio City Music Hall on June 11 (8 a.m. Japan time), but ...

Designer Kate Spade, one of the biggest names in American fashion, was found dead Tuesday in New York after committing suicide, police said. She was ...

Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to rape and criminal sex act charges on Tuesday before a judge in New York, and his lawyer vowed afterward ...

When the Miss America pageant started in 1921, having young women parade around in bathing suits seemed like a great way to get tourists to ...

Koharu Matsunaga used to be a fixture on Tokyo’s busking circuit, belting out tunes on her button accordion with her gypsy brass band at popular ...

Ten years after the HMT Empire Windrush brought Britain’s first major influx of West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom, and 10 years before Conservative ...

June 6-July 29Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) is one of the most recognized printmakers of the 20th century thanks in part to his well-known trompe ...

June 8-Aug. 26The “Shiseido Art Egg” project began in 2006 to promote up-and-coming artists selected by the public. Once chosen, the artists work with Shiseido ...

June 12-July 16Renovations of the Heisei Chishinkan wing at the Kyoto National Museum have meant that the public has not been able to see some ...

Exciting news for “Harukists”: Internationally acclaimed novelist Haruki Murakami will serve as a DJ for a one-off radio program on August 5, Tokyo FM announced ...

The senior class from the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people in February received diplomas Sunday and heard from commencement speaker Jimmy ...

A powerful public figure is accused of sexual assault in a Manhattan hotel room. There’s media frenzy. Enter go-to defense attorney Ben Brafman.Brafman, 69, was ...

"Life is the Heart of a Rainbow," the Yayoi Kusama exhibition now on at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Jakarta, is the ...

"Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of its Transformation" is now showing at the Mori Art Museum.