The core collection housed in this 1959 Le Corbusier-designed building, Japan’s only national museum devoted to Western art, was assembled by Kawasaki shipping magnate Matsukata Kojiro in the ...

the National Museum of Western Art, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the Ueno Royal Museum, the Shitamachi Museum, a scenic pond equipped with row boats, and plenty of verdant green space.

KANAZAWA—The National Crafts Museum here is showcasing a wide range of works themed around plants that bloom from spring to ...

Some of the best museums in the city such as Tokyo National Museum, Museum of Western Art and National Museum of Nature and Science charge an admission fee, and they are worth it. But the fact is ...

Auguste Rodin’s contemplative bronze “The Thinker,” a cast of which sits in one corner outside the National Museum of Western Art (NMWA) in Ueno, Tokyo, might be turning over in his head ...