Portraits of 6-year-olds who died in the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami were presented to their families on Jan. 12, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Morimura, a male artist born in Japan in 1951, and Sherman, a woman artist born in America three years later, began to make elaborately staged self-portraits inspired by the silver screen at ...

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 ...