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 built in 1931 that also serves as ...

TOKYO -- An art deco building in the Japanese capital that has been serving as the country's first textbook library houses ...

Asian art traditions, such as bird and animal motifs, were not abandoned in the mad rush to Deco, but were worked into the style, as you’ll see in many of the bronze and ceramic works on display. 4.

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 like ...

TOKYO -- An art deco building in the Japanese capital that has been serving as the country's first textbook library houses materials dating as far back as the Kamakura period (1185-1333).