Art disaster turns out to have a silver lining

Art Feb 17, 2013

Art disaster turns out to have a silver lining

by Edan Corkill

A dozen paintings hang from the white walls of a gallery at the Museum of Modern Art in Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Mostly prewar works by artists involved in the Proletarian movement, who focused on depictions of factory and farm laborers, the paintings are like ...

Turnip-tossing turns up trumps for trader

Lifestyle | WEEK 3 Jan 19, 2013

Turnip-tossing turns up trumps for trader

by Tomoko Otake

Yoshio Otsuka's years of striving to revive a near-extinct strain of turnip known to have been grown some 400 years ago in the Shinagawa district of today's central Tokyo recently struck pay dirt in a most unexpected fashion. That's because, via a little local celebrity, ...