“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Bank of Japan began issuing new 1,000-, 5,000- and 10,000-yen banknotes—now featuring 3-D holographic portraits—for the first time in 20 years on July 3. The central bank prepared ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan began circulating its first new banknotes in 20 years on Wednesday, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education institutions in ...

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