When visitors step inside the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Japan, they’re faced with a photo of a large clock, hands ...

Simose Art Museum in Hiroshima, Japan, has been recognized as the world’s most beautiful museum at the 2024 Prix Versailles awards. The prestigious architecture prize highlights the “finest ...

Yoshio Taniguchi, a Japanese architect who gained international fame in 1997 when he was chosen to renovate and expand New ...

Mr. Taniguchi was considered an outsider in the 1990s competition for the museum’s expansion and renovation, but his ...

plans to add new exhibits to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in an effort to help younger generations learn about the atomic bombing in a calmer environment. Informed sources told NHK that the ...

With the opening of a series of Shigeru Ban houses at the ambitious Simose Art Museum project outside of Hiroshima, fans of the architect now finally have an opportunity to experience some of Japanese ...

A global symbol of the importance of peace, Hiroshima is a vibrant commercial and culinary centre on the delta of the Ota River, shaped by the river’s six channels and knitted together by bridges. The ...

Donated to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by Yukio Nakata. At seventeen seconds after 8:15 a.m. on August 6 1945, the US B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the “ultimate weapon”, the atomic bomb ...

Most international headlines about Japanese art this year have given glowing impressions, which is little surprise ...

Most visitors hit the "golden triangle" of Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto on Honshu's east coast. Here's why the regions of Chugoku and Shikoku shouldn't be overlooked, and everything you should see during ...