Thu-Huong Ha

At a beer garden in Shibuya over the weekend, a friend and I considered a menu together. “Eternal Summer,” I read aloud from the list of beers. “Sounds nice,” remarked my friend. “Sounds like hell,” I replied.

The American dream promises upward mobility. In Japan, newcomers forge their own dreams.

Last Thursday, Japan's Meteorological Agency issued its first-ever alert for a once-in-a-century megaquake along the Nankai Trough.

The Pop Art pioneer passed away at age 88 on Aug. 9. His posthumous retrospective, “Adventures in Memory,” turns nightmare into fantasy.

In “Under the Eye of the Big Bird,” Hiromi Kawakami creates a new speculative future for humanity.

Overnight, U.S. television show “Shogun” has gone from contender to champion. On Sunday, the show set at the end of Japan's Sengoku Period received

Fram Kitagawa’s Northern Alps Art Festival embraces its inconvenient location and the natural elements.

“It is really the anger that makes me work,” Louise Bourgeois said in the 2008 documentary “The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine.”

We know a hero when we see one: He (of course) will be the one who doesn't need a map or app to know the way, who's barreling ahead of the pack into the unknown, unburdened by rules or mores.

After a banner year at the Venice Biennale, the creator of jazzy kinetic sculptures opens her first large-scale exhibition in Japan.