How the Toyota 2000GT changed global views on Japanese performance cars and proved Japan could build world-class grand ...

Kō Nakajima, “Yutaka Matsuzawa’s Psi Zashiki Room” (1969), one image from a projection of twenty 35-milimeter color slides (courtesy of Keiō University Art Center, Tokyo) It is the rare exhibition ...

A history of Japan podcast about the massive coalminers strike in Miike on the island of Kyushu in 1960, and its impact on the Japanese economy, Japanese unions and the Japanese left. Submitted by ...

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Japan's automotive market began to boom. The post-war economy had entered full swing, and loads of Japanese citizens were gunning for their very own car. To meet ...

A new show at Japan Society looks at avant-garde artists who worked far from Japan’s cultural capitals, in the forest, in the mountains and by the sea. By Jason Farago When the going gets rough — when ...