Japan Art, architecture and travel

Renowned architects design sculptural beauty packaging

Architects Kengo Kuma, Oskar Leo Kaufmann, and Tokujin Yoshioka are designing a new landscape in the world of beauty packaging

By Mary Cleary • Last updated 11 October 22

Project Japan: Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist

By Jonathan Bell • Last updated 10 October 22

A contemporary tea room and shop opens in Tokyo

By Catherine Shaw • Last updated 10 October 22

Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura faces off with Old Masters in New York

By Charlotte Jansen • Last updated 10 October 22

Worthy winner: Jun'ya Ishigami scoops top international architecture award

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 10 October 22

Found Muji

By Nick Compton • Last updated 10 October 22

A new collection of furniture combines Italian and Japanese craftsmanship

Italian furniture company De Padova and Japanese brand Time & Style join forces on a collection of furniture that marries the two countries' aesthetics and craftsmanship traditions

By Alice Morby • Last updated 10 October 22

One bedroom Trunk(House) offers classic Japanese living with a disco twist in Tokyo

By Danielle Demetriou • Last updated 10 October 22

Case Real transforms a disappearing tenement house into an Aesop store in Japan

By Luke Halls • Last updated 10 October 22

Youbi’s new HQ in Honshu is a friendly local hub as well as a furniture factory

By Jens Jensen • Last updated 10 October 22

Nendo’s minimalist homeware hacks connect human and object at Salone del Mobile

By Elly Parsons • Last updated 10 October 22

An original teahouse in Kyoto has been transformed into the 23-bedroom Sowaka

By Daven Wu • Last updated 10 October 22

Kennel club: Japan’s Kenya Hara launches Architecture for Dogs

By Naomi Pollock • Last updated 10 October 22

Theaster Gates explores the troubling history of a coastal community forced out of home

For his first solo museum show in France, the Chicago-based artist dives into the dark past of the now-uninhabited Malaga Island off the coast of Maine

By Amy Verner • Last updated 10 October 22

‘Any oyster can make a pearl – only beautiful ones can be jewels’

We delve into the Nagasaki waters with Tasaki’s pearl harvesters in pursuit of a perfectly lustrous cultivated crop

By Caragh McKay • Last updated 9 October 22

Muji is bringing its masterfully minimalist aesthetic to hotels

By Jens Jensen • Last updated 9 October 22

Inside-out house in Tokyo is an experiment in urban design

Tokyo’s Weather House by Not Architects Studio occupies a prominent corner site in a quiet residential street, its explosed structure and planting helping it blend into a nearby urban park

By Jonathan Bell • Last updated 9 October 22

Boutique mixed-use scheme in Japan combines music and living

A mixed-use scheme combining a music hall with residential units is completed in Japan, courtesy of Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 9 October 22

Anne Imhof: body language as tool, canvas and concept

Anne Imhof is one of five radical artists chosen by Michèle Lamy for Wallpaper’s 25th Anniversary Issue ‘5x5’ project. In the midst of Imhof’s carte blanche at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo, we explore how she has redefined the concept of body language

By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated 9 October 22

teamLab: how a Tokyo art collective pioneered an immersive art boom

With an operatic intervention and a show at Pace Geneva, teamLab, the now-700-strong Tokyo-based collective that blazed a trail for experiential, tech-fuelled art, continues to value ‘physical interaction in physical space’

By Nick Compton • Last updated 9 October 22

Muji opens its largest standalone store topped with its newest hotel in Ginza, Tokyo

By Jens Jensen • Last updated 9 October 22

Botanical sculptor Azuma Makoto creates a sculptural ecosystem at Mexico’s SFER IK

Japanese artist Azuma Makoto’s largest flower sculpture to date responds to SFER IK’s unique biophilic design and the surrounding wilderness

By Pei-Ru Keh • Last updated 9 October 22

Chiharu Shiota weaves past, present and future at an 18th-century Yorkshire chapel

By Elly Parsons • Last updated 9 October 22

At Kyotographie, photographers are looking onwards and upwards

By Jens Jensen • Last updated 9 October 22