This image does inspire discussion. It really wasn't until after Portuguese landed in Japan during the 16th century that you really start to see white folks (and black folks) appear in Japanese art.

This is how I know that many of Noirlac's images come from games made for the PC-98, a Japanese line of personal computers that obviously never caught on in the west.

What is Studio Ghibli art? Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation film studio which was founded in 1985 by Miyazaki Hayao, Takahata Isao and Suzuki Toshio.

During Asia Week in New York this March, the Japanese Art Dealers Association is hosting a three-day exhibit of 100 works, at the Fletcher-Sinclair mansion on East 79th Street. Here are 10 ...

Viewers can likely connect these images of specters to modern Japanese horror in films like 1998’s Ringu, and its English-language remake, 2002’s The Ring.

Yamamoto has made a name for himself on Twitter, where more than 82,000 followers receive daily tweets with images of his latest creations. But he's hardly the only latte artist to emerge from Japan.