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The artist, who got his start as an assistant to Takashi Murakami, takes his inspiration from the streets of Tokyo.

Takashi Murakami’s 2012 “Split” is a brilliant anomaly for an artist who otherwise says, “I’m utterly vulgar.”

In this week's Sex Scenes, the ability to write poetry of beauty illustrated the external beauty of Heian-era writers.

Anime auteur Satoshi Kon’s 1997 debut film “Perfect Blue” is back in theaters.

The eclectic shapes, color combinations, and all-over patterns of the Fall/Winter 2018 collections make perfect sense in Japan's chaotic capital. Photographed by Momo Okabe. Fashion Editor: Matt Holmes.

Kei Ninomiya, who began his career as a patternmaker at Comme des Garçons, has his own blossoming line under the brand’s banner. Photographed by Rinko Kawauchi. Fashion Editor: Matt Holmes.

This surreal anime has underwear thieves, a psychedelic journey into the night to find a children’s book, and unreasonably powerful school festival organizers—what more could you want?

And it's working for us.

Hiroshi Sugimoto's new photographs at the Japan Society follow the route taken by four 16th-century teenagers to limn the overlapping histories of Europe and Japan.

Takashi Murakami, master of the post-anime "superflat" aesthetic, has brought his older work into dialogue with some ambitious new projects, transforming the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow—and several other museums—into wild visual playpens.