OSAKA -- Not too long ago, the story of Japanese modern art in the period after World War II began drawing serious attention from art historians, museum curators, and art dealers in America and Europe, a development that helped prompt art specialists in Japan to reexamine the same subject matter.
Since then, critics, educators and curators worldwide have had to make room for Japanese modernism's story in the established, canonical telling of modern art's evolution into an international language of creative expression.
