japan

Thirty years in our past, Japan stopped commercial whaling. Next month, on July the 1st, five vessels will head out and begin commercial whaling after the thirty-year hiatus. The Japan Times reports that those same five ships departing next month are the ones which have recently been conducting...

The installation below is part of the teamLab Borderless exhibition located in Tokyo, Japan. It's described as "Artworks move out of the rooms freely, form connections and relationships with people, communicate with other works, influence and sometimes intermingle with each other. Create new...

Japanese paper artist Chie Hitotsuyama creates textured sculptures of animals using a technique that involves rolled strips of wet newspaper. From compacting them so closely, this creates an elegant method to form the fur of snow monkeys, the dense scales on the back of an iguana, to the soft...