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2009Lost In A Moment - Tokyo
2009
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2009James Gilpin (In Tokyo)
2009
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2016Light-hearted and distinctive work by Japanese designer Toru Kase
2016
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2013Seriously beautiful - and plentiful - patterned Japanese manhole covers!
2013
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2012Data becomes alchemy in Japanese maestro Ryoji Ikeda's jaw-dropping new Berlin installation
2012
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2012Here's some super clean, crisp, colourful Japanese graphic design
2012
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2013Danny Sangra's awesome illustrated interviews for new Tokyo show are a thrill
2013
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2018Catching up with Charlotte Trounce while on a residency in Japan
2018
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2012Check out the mid-century stylings of Japanese illustrator Satoshi Hashimoto
2012
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2018Ailsa Johnson’s illustrations draw on the everyday magic of Japanese culture
2018
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2010WIN: Tokyo Bike
2010
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2018Shun Ishizuka's designs combine Western design influences for a Japanese context
2018
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2014Miscellaneous: Behind the scenes of the 1956 Japanese Godzilla
2014
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2013A Week On Monday: Lawrence Zeegen on 80s pop and Japanese junk
2013
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2015Japanese studio who sent a bonsai to space's Encyclopaedia of Flowers
2015
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2012Japanese studio Nendo use the everyday as inspiration for their compact designs
2012
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2012Traditional Japanese woodblock carvings give Nintendo a newfound gravitas
2012
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2013Art: Henrique Oliveira's installation is taking over the Palais de Tokyo
2013
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202013 Franco-Japanese designers and illustrators respond to the philosophy of Emanuele Coccia in a new poster exhibition
2020
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1937Japanese Government Railways
1937
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2010Come to Tokyo, travel poster, 1930s
2010
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20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 15
2014
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20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 06
2014
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2009Japanese printing type,Japan
2009
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2022Poster from the Japanese Ministry of Interior calls for public health awareness during Spanish Flu, 1920
2022
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20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 12
2014
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20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 14
2014
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2016The Tokyo Peace Exhibition 1922 event poster
2016
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2019The poster for 1936 Japanese general election
2019
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20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 18
2014
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20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 04
2014
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2025The Shohei Ohtani Collection Tokyo Sports Book Café SHIBUYA TSUTAYA 7F 2025年3月23日の渋谷 202503231633 IMG 6247
2025
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2021Japan Travel Poster Hizen-Hama
2021
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2012Anti-Japan poster in Shanghai circa 1930
2012
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2018Volume presents a long-overdue monograph on Japanese type master Takenobu Igarashi
2018
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2016Dutch artist Tymen Visser paints life in Tokyo
2016
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2017Karifurav Caihua’s weirdly erotic Japanese-inspired illustrations
2017
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2021Celebrating the legacy of Kamekura Yusaku’s iconic Tokyo 1964 Olympics identity
2021
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2022Broken Japanese: Why even a “respectful” homage to a country’s culture can be problematic
2022
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2024The View From Tokyo: the fascinating origins, and triumphant resurgence, of Risograph in Japan
2024
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20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 17
2014
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2020Illustrator Joshua Winston Scurville's inspirations vary from Japanese graphic design to jazz
2020
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2019Alice Tye's new exhibition presents the everyday details from a trip to Japan
2019
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2012Best of Japanese design scene in Berlin via the Tokyo Art Directors Club
2012
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2015Nuanced and deliciously strange illustration from Japanese artist Yu Fukugawa
2015
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2021Maciek Pożoga captures the human-like qualities of Japanese macaques
2021
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2021Art collective Excalibur on using pixel art to blend Japanese myths with reality
2021
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2026Tokyo Underground Railway Poster
2026
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2023Art from, 1930s Japan Travel Poster - 02 (cropped)
2023
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2015UNIQLO's new Kabuki range takes inspiration from Japanese theatre
2015
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1971Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War — Japanese poster
1971
Type in Use
Casino Versus Japan –
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2024The View From Tokyo: why Laforet Harajuku is an epicentre for the city’s alternative creative ideas
2024
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2015Japanese illustrator Nimura Daisuke is back with his charmingly naughty gifs
2015
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2011WassinkLundgren: Tokyo Tokyo
2011
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2017Varied, playful and slightly odd drawings from Japanese illustrator Summer House
2017
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2013Photography: Nissan offer photographers the chance to go to Tokyo
2013
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2025Mount Fuji Japan travel poster (cropped)
2025
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20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 05
2014
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2015Japanese Defense Agency 1954
2015
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2013Japanese photographer Takeshi Suga turns his talents to snow-bound serenity
2013
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2019Illustrative painter Alice Tye on capturing the natural beauty of Japan
2019
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2021Jentwo’s sunny, characterful illustrations are inspired by Japanese City Pop and the friendly folk of Kamakura
2021
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2015Bizarre ad uses synchronised swimmers to advertise Japan’s hot springs
2015
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2012Posthumously introducing the undisputed king of Japanese Graphic design, Shigeo Fukuda
2012
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2012Design rising from destruction – new show focusses on post-tsunami Japanese revival
2012
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2025This exhibition showcases the universal language of Japanese pictograms
2025
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2017Animator and director James Curran’s amusing 30-day Gifathon project in Tokyo
2017
Poster
2021WW2 Japanese Aircraft Poster Chart Newsmap Vol 2 No 17 1943-08-16 US Government National Archives NARA Unrestricted Public domain 26-nm-2-17 002
2021
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2019Poster for recruiting immigrants to Manchukuo from Japan
2019
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2018Tokyo 1964 (184023408)
2018
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2014Japanese illustrator Nimura Daisuke’s adorable and hilariously rude GIFs
2014
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20211930s Japan Travel Poster - Fuji
2021
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2026Theo Cottle pays tribute to the slow dancing of Japan’s youngest samurais
2026
Poster
20211930s Japan Travel Poster - 13 (cropped)
2021
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2013HarrimanSteel overhaul Tokyo Fixed in transformation to Kinoko Custom Cycles
2013
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2019A rural fishing village in Japan attempts to overcome its ageing population
2019
Poster
2014Japanese artist Ryo Kuwabara's incredible eye-popping poster design
2014
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2015Yakisoba noodles, cigarettes and Tokyo streets in Monika Mogi’s coming-of-age series
2015
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2017“A small Japanese photographer is on the same page of great photographers!”: Piczo joins WeFolk
2017
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2020Seb Agresti tells us about his residency in Japan and the importance of reinventing yourself
2020
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2012Mogwai Japan: Knock for Knock
2012
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2015Beer poster in Japan 2015-06-25
2015
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2017Ten contemporary Manga artists reshaping the eminent Japanese comic scene
2017
Poster
2025Tokyo travel poster in the 1930s (cropped)
2025
Poster
2021WW2 Japanese Army Uniforms Newsmap Vol No US Government National Archives Unrestricted Public domain 26-nm-2-42 002 cropped
2021
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2024Dinosaurs, UFOs and fairytale castles: A travel diary of Japan’s roadside love hotels
2024
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2015Daikoku Design Institute’s poster design for Tokyo art school uses abstract faces in acid shades
2015
Poster
20211930s Japan Travel Poster - 21 (cropped)
2021
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2012Jaw-dropping installation sees 100,000 LEDs float down Tokyo river
2012
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2012The intensely quiet, private moments of Japanese photographer, Go Itami
2012
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2019Koichi and Takeko: A tale of two grandparents and Japan through the 20th Century
2019
Poster
2019A glimpse at the 226 Japanese posters on display at Stedelijk Museum
2019
Poster
2020“I love books!”: How Japanese graphic designer Ikuya Shigezane keeps traditional techniques alive
2020
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2013The Graduates 2013: Luisa Whitton gets deep inside the Japanese robotics industry
2013
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2018Dairy drinks and cigarettes meet in Lucas Reis' illustrative evocations of Japan
2018
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2015Japanese artist Tatsuro Kiuchi is back with more beautifully finished illustrations
2015
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20112011 Japanese power saving poster 03
2011
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2015Refreshingly unexpected posters from Japanese designer Yutaka Satoh
2015
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2016Photographer Zaza Bertrand takes a look inside the Japanese love hotels
2016
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2012Japanese duo Nerhol talk about their triumphant time-lapse cut-away portraits
2012
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2017Illustrator Kate Prior works out “how the hell you draw air” for Wired Japan
2017
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2012Meet Sari, the Tokyo tourist photobomber making her hobby into an artform
2012
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2017David Lewandowski’s floppy rubber bodies take over the streets of Japan
2017
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2018Naoya Hatakeyama's photographs of Japan's contemporary topographies embody "the death and rebirth of cities"
2018
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2017Tokyo illustrator Okamura Yuta and his endearing brush-and-ink characters
2017
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2021In Tokyo, Ichijo Hikaru is looking beyond Japanese beauty standards for her illustrations
2021
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2019Japanese illustrator Sabu is influenced by the nostalgia of old adverts
2019
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2016Tokyo-based illustrator Ryuto Miyake's work is full of warmth and wit
2016
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2012Enormous, breathtaking salt sculptures by Japanese Motoi Yamamoto
2012
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2022Broken Japanese: Understanding privilege and cultural appropriation as a creative
2022
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2015Gurafiku founder Ryan Hageman on the wonder of Japanese graphic design
2015
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2021Stefan Dotter documents the Ama, the “sea women” of Japan
2021
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1904To war against Japan – Russian poster
1904
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2018Friday Mixtape: Photographer Laura Lewis makes us a soundtrack for Japanese love hotels
2018
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2012Tadashi Ueda is perhaps Japan's most enigmatic young designer
2012
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2014Illustration: Striking Japanese scenes from illustrator Yuki Kitazumi
2014
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2013Art: Welcome to the psychedelic world of Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami
2013
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1943Smash Japanese aggression! – British World War Two poster
1943
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20171930s Japan Travel Poster - 20 (cropped, with text)
2017
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2011Recruitment poster for the Tank School of the Imperial Japanese Army
2011
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2025Japanese Action Poster - DPLA - 1412ca3913b4cd9b671f58cd28e96f28
2025
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2024Joseph Töreki’s juicy renders are inspired by “perfect” pieces of Japanese fruit
2024
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1905Russian Bears versus Rising Sun — Japanese print
1905
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2016Sean Lotman’s serenely psychedelic photographs of Japan
2016
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Scene from the Sino-Japanese War - Artist: Mizuno Toshikata, Publisher: Kokkeido (Akiyama Buemon)
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2012A fascinating glimpse into the world of the Tokyo businessman by Bruno Quinquet
2012
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2024The View From Tokyo: embracing imperfection and humour with heta-uma
2024
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2017Japanese graphic designer Ryu Mieno creates type-heavy works fizzing with energy
2017
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2015PanAm Japan Poster (19477934635)
2015
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20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 07
2014
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2013Graphic Design: Tokyo show brings celebrates 25 years of design brilliance from Why Not Associates
2013
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2022Meet Yasuo-range, the Tokyo illustrator using geometric expressions to transform the nondescript
2022
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2012Japanese woodblock printmaker Nishijima Katsuyuki has an incredible craft
2012
Poster
2021Japan travel poster
2021
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2020Japanese photographer Hashimoto Shoko looks back to 50 years ago, to his time spent with the Goze
2020
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20211930s Japan Travel Poster - 03 (cropped)
2021
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2017Japanese Rio 2016 Olympic Paralympic Medalists Parade (32983171881)
2017
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2021Tree and village - 1930s Japan Travel Poster - 09 (cropped)
2021
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20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 13
2014
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2023Art from 1930s Japan Travel Poster - 11 (cropped)
2023
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2023Art from 1930s Japan Travel Poster - 06 (cropped)
2023
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20211930s Japan Travel Poster Nikko
2021
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2016Carl Randall’s detailed paintings depict the frenetic and crowded nature of Japan
2016
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2020Four illustrators create alternative mascots for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games
2020
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2025Angela Kirkwood illustrates a reissue of Magical Athlete – the zany Japanese board game that’s absurd and fun in equal measure
2025
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2014Weird and wonderful Japanese graphic design from Tadashi Ueda
2014
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2012Majestic Ukiyo-e inspired illustrations from the gifted Yuko Shimizu
2012
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2013Photography: Superbly talented Go Itami beckons us into his own deliciously beautiful Japan
2013
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2013Graphic Design: Sensational Japanese graphics from aptly-named Groovisions
2013
Typeface
2021Grilli Type’s latest typeface GT Maru takes inspiration from Japan’s friendly and efficient signage
2021
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2010Meiji-Jingu-shrine-Kanji-typeface
2010
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2022A Japanese Nightingale (1918, poster)
2022
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2021Sea Bathing in Obama, Fukui Prefecture - 1930s Japan Travel Poster - 01 (cropped)
2021
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2025U.S. Army WW2 anti-Japanese propaganda poster No. 148
2025
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2025Wanted poster in Japan 2025-06-29
2025
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20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 10
2014
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2021WW2 Japanese Army Uniforms Rank insignia Collar patches ornaments Poster chart 1944 US Government National Archives NARA Unrestricted Public domain 44-pa-1139 cropped
2021
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20211944 poster with soldier, Main building of the Kyoto Railway Museum 068 (cropped)
2021
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2025Glass Japan Fuku (calligraphy design by Rosanjin)
2025
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2016The paper picture show about Tsuburaya Kokich who got the copper medal of the Tokyo Olympic games in 1964 - panoramio
2016
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2020Gilbert Color Bold - Katakana, Japanese characters
2020
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20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 11
2014
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2017Tokyo 2020 olympics
2017
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2019Aircraft of Japan in art detail, Khabarovsk intervention (cropped)
2019
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2026Tokyo Subway 1927 poster
2026
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2018The Art of Shinkansen animated gif series celebrates the Japanese bullet train
2018
Poster
20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 03
2014
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20211930s Japan Travel Poster - 07 (cropped)
2021
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2012Mouthwateringly wonderful Aesop Fables illustrations by Japanese master Takeo Takei
2012
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2012Legendary Daido Moriyama's gritty portrayal of ancient Japanese tradition in the modern world
2012
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Man met peuter op de rug, Osaka
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2016NY-based Kendall Henderson distils the visual complexity of Tokyo
2016
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2016Yoshinori Mizutani captures the colourful, rain soaked commuters of Tokyo
2016
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2017Tokyo-based photographer Yota Yoshida’s “poetic expressions in the everyday”
2017
Poster
20171930s Japan Travel Poster - 20 (cropped)
2017
Typeface
2022Japanese gothic typeface comparison
2022
Poster
2026The reconstruction of the imperial capital and Tokyo subway
2026
Poster
2025Japan Labour-Farmer Party poster 1928
2025
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2011Japanese Counterintelligence Poster circa 1940
2011
Poster
2009Tokyo monogatari poster 2
2009
Poster
20142013 平成25年 日本経済産業副大臣松島みどり - 松島綠 State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan Midori Matsushima
2014
Poster
2010Karama, a Japanese romance, promotional poster, 1904
2010
Poster
20211930s Japan Travel Poster - 05 (cropped)
2021
Poster
2021WW2 Japanese INfatry Weapons Poster Chart Newsmap Vol 3 No 34 1944-12-11 US Government National Archives NARA Unrestricted Public domain 26-nm-3-34 002
2021
Typeface
2006Japanese katakana typeface having upper line
2006
Poster
2009Japanese printing type 2,Japan
2009
Poster
2023Frankenstein vs. Baragon Japanese Theatrical poster
2023
Poster
2015Japan Poster (18855449164)
2015
Poster
2026Takashimaya Osaka Opening Poster (1930)
2026
Poster
2024Vocabulary for Yamagiwa, The Modern Japanese Written Language
2024
Poster
2023Wikipedia Asian Month 2023 - ASEAN-Japan 50 - poster-jajp
2023
Poster
20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 02
2014
Poster
2013Japan-Meteorological-Agency-01
2013
Poster
2025The Shohei Ohtani Collection Tokyo Sports Book Café SHIBUYA TSUTAYA 7F 2025年3月23日の渋谷 202503231635 IMG 6250
2025
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2009Tokyo Kid poster 2
2009
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20081st Census poster in Japan
2008
Poster
2019Art detail, The poster for 1936 Japanese general election (cropped)
2019
Poster
20181959 - Gewerbemuseum Basel - Alte und neue Formen in Japan
2018
Poster
2020Japanese Awareness Poster - DPLA - 51570176bcc18ff5a64bf2d9b12a87c2
2020
Poster
20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 21
2014
Poster
2023Art from 1930s Japan Travel Poster - 08 (cropped)
2023
Poster
20211930s Japan Travel Poster Kyoto 2
2021
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2023Art from 1930s Japan Travel Poster - Ontake Shosenkyo Valley (cropped)
2023
Poster
2010The Illustration of The Siberian War, No. 16. The Japanese Army Occupied Vragaeschensk
2010
Poster
2023Wikipedia Asian Month 2023 - ASEAN-Japan 50 - poster-msmy
2023
Poster
2023Wikipedia Asian Month 2023 - ASEAN-Japan 50 - poster-enuk
2023
Poster
2023Mount Tate (Tateyama) art from 1930s Japan Travel Poster - 14 (cropped)
2023
Poster
2014Chinese anti-Japanese poster published after the revenge by Koreans
2014
Poster
20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 16
2014
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2009Board of Tourist Industry poster, Japanese Government Railways
2009
Poster
20112011 Japanese power saving poster 01
2011
Poster
2008Tokyo 2016 Edo-Tokyo Museum
2008
Poster
2010Board of Tourist Industry poster, Japanese Government Railways cropped
2010
Poster
20211930s Japan Travel Poster - Ontake Shosenkyo Valley
2021
Poster
20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 09
2014
Poster
2023Japan- Duty Faces Us - Total Defeat of Japan WWII Poster
2023
Poster
20211930s Japan Travel Poster - 10 (cropped)
2021
Poster
20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 20
2014
Poster
2015Tokyo Olympic 2020 Emblem with JAL (20864559060)
2015
Poster
20141930s Japan Travel Poster - 08
2014
Poster
2007Japanese word "Kanji" (Mincho typeface)
2007
Poster
2011Anti-Japanese World War II propaganda poster war bonds
2011
Poster
20112011 Japanese power saving poster 02
2011
Poster
2010Sugiura Hisui Tokyo Subway 1927 poster
2010
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2019Fyre Festival’s digital designer Tokyo tells its story, two years on
2019
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2022Broken Japanese: Exploring exoticisation and stereotyping in graphic design
2022
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2021Illustrator Kelly Anna’s Tokyo Olympic series proves she’s not yet done evolving
2021
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2017Dan Woodger channels the fun of the beach for McDonald's Japan
2017
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2010Japan Probe
2010
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2014Dan Wilton photographed Halloween in Tokyo for Vice
2014
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2015Nico Therin photographs Tokyo's famous Tsukiji fish market
2015
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2019Michiyo Yanagihara imbues her post-human photography with Japanese mythology
2019
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2014Yoshinori Mizutani's incredible photographs of Tokyo’s parrot infestation
2014
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2009The Japanese Gallery of Psychiatric Art
2009
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2012Six artists customise six cycles as part of Tokyo Bike's east London launch
2012
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2019Shiori Fujioka illustrates the unseen tranquility of Tokyo
2019
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2018Fish by Osma Harvilahti is a romantic interpretation of the Japanese fishing industry
2018
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2010Tokyo Bike
2010
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2015Simple scenes and surreal poses from Japanese illustrator Noritake
2015