The San-Ai Dream Centre has stood the test of time due to a design that maintains a clear focus on the purpose of the building.

Gunma Music Centre, by Antonin Raymond, uses thin folded concrete plates to create a rigid structure that is earthquake resistant.

The Osaka Memorial Hall marks the introduction of parliamentary democracy to Japan and the possibility of a new beginning after the destruct

Toyoda Hall, Fumihiko Maki's debut project, contains the seeds of ideas that he has continued to develop throughout his career...

The design of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building represents a time when modernism was concerned with the creation of a socially-engage

Togo Murano is one of the best known and most prolific 20th century architects in Japan. He is admired by architectural specialists and the

The Ura House, designed by Takamasa Yoshizaka in 1956, is influenced by Corbusian ideas but also anticipates Japanese Metabolism.

The Imperial Palace Kyoto and Naka Incineration Plant Hiroshima illustrate Japan's movement from a pre-modern, feudal, emperor-worshippi

The Osaka Gas Building, designed by Takeo Yasui and completed in 1933, reflects Osaka's optimistic embrace of the future at that time an

Between 1932 and 1962 Yasujiro Ozu made a series of films that provide a slice of Tokyo life during the arrival of Modernism in Japan.

The Kagawa Prefectural Government Offices (1958) offered a radical new vision of what Japanese public buildings might be and are perhaps Ken

The Japanese government held an architectural competition for the design of the Peace Centre, which was won by Kenzo Tange with an apparentl

The International House of Japan can be seen as a symbol of Japan's attempt to transition into the modern era and is set against the bac

The real value of Tokyo's Dojunkai Apartments has been ignored in the rush to maximise economic gain from the land that they occupied.

Tokyo Women's Christian University, designed by Antonin Raymond, was selected by DoCoMoMo as one of the top 100 Modernist buildings in J

In the 1951 film, The Man in the White Suit, chemist Sidney Stratton invents a fabric that will never crease or get dirty or wear out, a fab

The widow of Japanese Architect Kiyonori Kikutake has described different facets of her husband's personality, one gentle and reflective

Sabi is an important concept in Japanese aesthetics that can be difficult to grasp because there is no directly equivalent word in English.

In the 20th century Katsura Imperial Villa became a kind of touchstone for the essence of Japanese architecture and was called upon to suppo

Tadao Ando is possibly the most famous Japanese architect of the modern era. But Ando's work is neither modern nor Japanese. This post e