Using Google Earth you can get a birds-eye view of the rooftop of the Matsuya department store in the Asakusa district of Tokyo, a block-long art deco building ... across Japan from the 1930s ...

With an exterior oozing old-world European elegance, the original branch of Japan’s oldest department store chain ... its grand Art Deco spaces have hosted well-heeled Tokyoites seeking the ...

TOKYO -- An art deco building in the Japanese ... materials or seeing inside the facility. (Japanese original by Akihiro ...

One is that it shows [Japanese artists] being up to date and international -- European-American -- so it's very cosmopolitan ... But [when the deco and art nouveau styles] are being developed in ...

If Japan isn’t the country that springs to mind when you think of Art Deco, it’s hardly surprising. The Japanese version of the international style of the 1920s and 1930s has been rediscovered ...

Japan might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of Art Deco, but Ezra Pound’s 1934 edict to “make it new” resonated just as deeply there as it did in cultural capitals ...