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Main characters from the popular Japanese manga "One Piece" on display at the Grevin Museum in Paris on Thursday
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2026
‘One Piece’ manga characters join Paris wax museum
The 10 wax dolls of the Straw Hat Crew members are the first Japanese anime characters to join the Grevin Museum.
Emperor Naruhito delivers remarks at a luncheon hosted by Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague on Thursday.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2026
Emperor Naruhito attends luncheon in The Hague
The emperor said he hopes the friendly and cooperative ties between Japan and the Netherlands will become deeper and more multifaceted for next-generation youths and children.
Yukiaki Sasaki (left), president of Body Shop Takata, and former Mazda engineer Takao Kijima talk about a new sports car museum they plan to open at the former Kuruhara Elementary School site in Akitakata, Hiroshima Prefecture.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Jun 15, 2026
Former Mazda engineer leads sports car museum project in Hiroshima
The hope for the museum is that it becomes the centerpiece of a broader initiative aimed at turning the surrounding area into a gathering place for motorsports fans.
The distinctive architecture of MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives has made the building a standout in the area.
CULTURE / Art / Greater Shinagawa Area
Jun 2, 2026
Takanawa Gateway’s latest landmark is still working on its own story
The museum’s programming may lack focus, but its open spaces already offer Tokyoites a reason to stop in.
Visitors queue outside the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
JAPAN
May 26, 2026
Hiroshima atomic bomb museum to be reservation-only from Aug. 8 to 16
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which documents the world’s first atomic bombing in August 1945, will start accepting online reservations as early as this month.
Visitors stand under the Espiritu Santo, a full-scale representation of a 17th century galleon, on display at the Museo del Galeon in Manila on April 23.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Apr 28, 2026
Philippine museum brings deadly and lucrative galleon trade to life
Museumgoers will starting May 1 be able to walk on the deck of a full-size replica of a Spanish galleon that was built and crewed by Filipinos.
An artist’s rendering of the new wing of the National Gallery in London, designed by Kengo Kuma and others.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2026
Kuma-led team to design new wing of London’s National Gallery
The new building is scheduled to open in the early 2030s, according to British media, and is slated to showcase modern paintings made after 1900.
Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, on Tuesday observe a class and speak with students at the municipal educational facility Manabiya Yumenomori in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2026
Emperor and his family visit education facility in Fukushima Prefecture
The imperial couple and Princess Aiko watched elementary and junior high school classes at Manabiya Yumenomori, which also functions as a certified kindergarten-nursery hybrid.
A cicada fossil dating back about 300,000 years was discovered by two elementary school-aged sisters from Tokyo. Whole-body cicada fossils are extremely rare.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 5, 2026
Tokyo elementary school sisters discover rare cicada fossil
Whole-body cicada fossils are extremely rare, with most fossils consisting only of wing fragments.
A man looks at the preserved Atomic Bomb Dome from an observation point near the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park last year.
JAPAN
Apr 3, 2026
Hiroshima’s A-bomb museum draws record visitors for third straight year
The tally for the year that ended Tuesday was up 14% from the previous year, the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation said.
The inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Narratives Takanawa is organized around the theme of spirals and searching for them in science, art and our own bodies.
CULTURE / Art
Apr 3, 2026
Museum of Narratives is rife with possibilities
Part museum, part performance venue, the ambitious Museum of Narratives aims to make Shinagawa a cultural hub.
Outside, at the western entrance of Edo-Tokyo Museum, one of the spaces redesigned under architect Shohei Shigematsu, is an installation of torii gate-inspired structures.
CULTURE / Art
Mar 27, 2026
What’s new (and what’s not) at the reopened Edo-Tokyo Museum
After four years, the extensive history museum reopens with new large-scale models, digital screens and some finer tune-ups.
Prototypes of bronze statues of the Straw Hat Pirates crew members from "One Piece" on display at the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art on Friday
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2026
Quake recovery exhibition opens in Kumamoto with ‘One Piece’ tie-in
The exhibition showcasing reconstruction efforts after the April 2016 earthquakes runs from Friday through May 24.
Visitors line up at Hiroshima Castle's keep in the city of Hiroshima on Sunday before the facility closed its doors.
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2026
Hiroshima Castle keep closes, ending 68-year run
The city is considering rebuilding the keep in wood and plans to decide on a development approach in five or more years.
Admission fees for the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and 11 other state-run museums are set to increase for visitors from outside Japan.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2026
Japan’s national museums to implement dual-pricing system
The planned change, a first for state-run museums, will hike admission fees for nonresidents by March 2031.
The British Museum in London
CULTURE / Art
Feb 9, 2026
British Museum in London holds samurai exhibition
The exhibition, set to run until May 4, showcases some 280 items collected in and outside Britain, including those from the museum’s own collection.
After closing for renovations in 2022, Edo-Tokyo Museum reopens this spring.
CULTURE / Art
Jan 30, 2026
Renewal and novelty shape this year’s art and culture calendar
In 2026, two major museums reopen after renovations and two new cultural institutions open in Tokyo and several big exhibitions and art events take place around the country.
Alumni of Hatsukaichi Junior High School in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Dec. 23 look at a wooden relief depicting the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which was restored and returned to the school.
JAPAN / Society
Jan 21, 2026
Wooden atomic bomb relief returns home to Hiroshima after alumni restoration
About 50 former classmates helped restore the wooden relief, which after years of exposure to the elements had been slated for possible disposal.
“Ground,” an underground installation added to Museum SAN in 2025, was codesigned by architect Tadao Ando and sculptor Antony Gormley.
CULTURE / Art
Jan 18, 2026
Tadao Ando’s ongoing architecture dialogue with Museum SAN
Since Museum SAN opened in 2013, Tadao Ando has returned three times to design additional buildings and spaces.
Johannes Vermeer's painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" in The Hague in October 2022. The 17th century masterpiece will make a rare trip abroad in 2026 when it is loaned to Japan in August and September.
CULTURE / Art
Jan 9, 2026
‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ to make rare trip abroad to Japan
The 17th century masterpiece will be loaned to the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka in August and September while its home in The Hague undergoes renovations.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
Japanese-language education is at a turning point
The country is gradually transforming Japanese-language education from a volunteer-driven system into a professional, government-supported network to better serve its growing foreign population. 
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Japan plans to sharply raise fees for residence permits from October
Foreign tourists walk on the path leading to the Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in May.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.

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