The study, authored by economist Clare McAndrew, also reveals that Japanese collectors buy far less at art fairs or online than the global average

The fourth edition sees the event court serious collectors as well as curators

Art Collaboration Kyoto brings together Japanese and international galleries during a city-wide celebration of the arts

The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, covers five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture

The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum Art, operated by the chemical manufacturer DIC, may have to downsize or close for good

Tokyo’s rich, international art scene and accessible residency are among the factors encouraging China‘s cultural workers to move to the island country

“Even though we are confronted with situations of hopelessness, resilience is our kind of hope,” say Chinese curators Carol Yinghua Lu and Liu Ding

Kyotographie is back for a 12th time, with shows that highlight the art of setting a scene

A haul of historic objects looted following the Battle of Okinawa make their way home after almost 80 years

Sukeban, a group of Japanese women wrestlers, drew the crowds to a skatepark under an overpass at one of Art Week Miami’s more unusual events

The fair's third edition has expanded in size since last year

Some 50 galleries and institutions participated this year in the Art Basel-backed event

The masterpiece is celebrated in a show at Tokyo’s Sompo Museum

“Japan’s art market is behind where logic dictates it should be,” says the fair's co-founder Magnus Renfrew

Architect Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower was demolished last year, but 23 of its distinctive pods were preserved

A print of the "Great Wave" by Hokusai sold for a record-breaking $2.8m at Christie’s during the series of exhibitions and auctions

Second edition comes as Tokyo attempts to regain its lost status as an international art hub amid a booming contemporary market and a forthcoming fair

Artist’s huge sculpture at Benesse Art Site Naoshima has been restored after being severely damaged last year

The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, spans five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture

After surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as a child, Miyake turned to clothes as a modern, optimistic form of creativity, and revived the use of pleats to create wearable, free-flowing, unisex clothes

A show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art displays more than 120 Japanese textiles made from the stuff of nature

The exhibition is due to open at Tokyo's National Art Center in March

Contemporary explorations of femininity that extend beyond the male gaze headline the fair’s latest edition

Vincent's watercolour of a Dutch meadow with cows was exhibited once, in 1903, and is known only from a small black-and-white photograph

Vincent was fascinated by his Australian colleague’s links with Japan—and together they painted landscapes in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise

Can reforms to Japan’s onerous tax system allow Tokyo to replace Hong Kong as the leading art trade hub in Asia, as it was during the “bubble period” of the late 1980s?

In everything he made—clothes, spectacles inspired by his trademark round lenses, home furnishings, parfumerie—Takada's love of fine art remained close at hand

“Beautiful women” in Gauguin’s rediscovered manuscript are now identified as by Kunisada—Vincent’s favourite Japanese printmaker

Londoners will have to wait even longer to see the National Gallery’s 60 touring masterpieces