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Despite global declines, the Japanese art market has surpassed its pre-pandemic levels, registering an 11 percent increase from 2019 to 2023.

Japan had lived in relative isolation from the outside world. American gunboat diplomacy, instigated by Commodore Perry in 1853, opened up Japan for trade with the West. The Japanese did not wish to ...