Every year about this time I start stressing. I don't like to shop, and yet because the holidays are here, I have to. I try ...

Tech icon Steve Jobs was fascinated by Japanese culture, and was particularly passionate about shin-hanga woodblock prints. Interviews with former colleagues and friends reveal that his lifelong ...

“True, it is full of influences. Whoever has a little background in art history would find art nouveau, Klimt, bites of ...

Frank Castle, president and owner of Castle Fine Arts, Inc., has been an active fine-art dealer for more than 35 years, specializing in 18th- through 20th-century Japanese prints, antique maps ...

Forged “hanga” prints of works by renowned nihonga Japanese-style painters, including Ikuo Hirayama (1930-2009), have been hitting the market recently, a group of art dealers reported on Feb. 8.

And I believe there are many forged "hanga" prints gracing the walls of homes around Japan today. Many have been in circulation, including copies of prints by high-profile Japanese-style painter ...

The OECD has urged Japan and Europe to step up money printing, even while the United States attempts to unwind quantitative easing. With the world economy still underperforming, can Asia’s ...