Actress Sawajiri

Actress Sawajiri

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Erika Sawajiri (R) appears at the premiere of her latest movie Helter Skelter at a Tokyo theater on July 14, 2012, with the film's director Mika Ninagawa.

Bullet train billed as running modern art museum to debut in spring

Bullet train billed as running modern art museum to debut in spring

The operator of the Joetsu Shinkansen bullet train line unveils the exterior of a special train, adorned with images of fireworks taken by renowned photographer Mika Ninagawa, on Jan. 12, 2016, at JR Omiya Station, north of Tokyo. The Genbi (modern art) Shinkansen, a six-car train that displays modern art such as paintings and videos inside, will run between Echigo-Yuzawa and Niigata stations on the line mainly on the weekends and holidays from this spring. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

JR East unveils exterior of special edition bullet train

JR East unveils exterior of special edition bullet train

The Genbi Shinkansen, a six-car bullet train adorned with images of fireworks taken by renowned Japanese photographer Mika Ninagawa, is unveiled at JR Omiya Station, north of Tokyo, on Jan. 12, 2016. East Japan Railway Co. will run the train, which displays modern art inside, between Echigo-Yuzawa and Niigata stations on the Joetsu Shinkansen Line mainly on the weekends and holidays from this spring. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

JR East unveils exterior of special edition bullet train

JR East unveils exterior of special edition bullet train

The Genbi Shinkansen, a six-car bullet train adorned with images of fireworks taken by renowned Japanese photographer Mika Ninagawa, is unveiled at JR Omiya Station, north of Tokyo, on Jan. 12, 2016. East Japan Railway Co. will run the train, which displays modern art inside, between Echigo-Yuzawa and Niigata stations on the Joetsu Shinkansen Line mainly on the weekends and holidays from this spring. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Photographer visits hot spring decorated with her works

Photographer visits hot spring decorated with her works

Photographer Mika Ninagawa looks at one of her works on display at Dogo Onsen Honkan, a renowned wooden public bathhouse in Matsuyama, western Japan on Dec. 2, 2015. The Dogo hot spring resort is holding a 10-month-long event until Feb. 29, 2016, combining the hot spring with art, showcasing Ninagawa's works themed on flower petals on the streets and introducing "yukata" kimono bathrobes bearing colorful flower petal motifs designed by Ninagawa, among other things. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Photographer visits hot spring decorated with her works

Photographer visits hot spring decorated with her works

Photographer Mika Ninagawa stands in front of Dogo Onsen Honkan, a renowned wooden public bathhouse in Matsuyama, western Japan, with a curtain designed with one of her works hanging, on Dec. 2, 2015. The Dogo hot spring resort is holding a 10-month-long event until Feb. 29, 2016, combining the hot spring with art, showcasing Ninagawa's works themed on flower petals on the streets and introducing "yukata" kimono bathrobes bearing colorful flower petal motifs designed by Ninagawa, among other things. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Photographer's works illuminated at wooden public bathhouse

Photographer's works illuminated at wooden public bathhouse

Colorful pictures taken by photographer and film director Mika Ninagawa are hung on "shoji" sliding screens at Dogo Onsen Honkan, an old wooden public bathhouse in the Dogo hot spring resort in Matsuyama, western Japan, and are lit on a trial basis on the evening of Sept. 30, 2015. The exhibition, which started the next day, will continue until the end of February. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Photographer's works shown at wooden public hot-spring bathhouse

Photographer's works shown at wooden public hot-spring bathhouse

Colorful pictures by photographer and film director Mika Ninagawa are hung on "shoji" sliding screens on Oct. 1, 2015, at Dogo Onsen Honkan, an old wooden public bathhouse at the Dogo hot spring resort in Matsuyama, western Japan. The exhibition will continue until the end of February. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Photographer's works exhibited at old wooden public bathhouse

Photographer's works exhibited at old wooden public bathhouse

Visitors relax in a room on Oct. 1, 2015, against a background of "shoji" sliding screens with colorful pictures taken by photographer and film director Mika Ninagawa at Dogo Onsen Honkan, an old wooden public bathhouse in the Dogo hot spring resort in Matsuyama, western Japan. The exhibition will continue until the end of February. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Olympics and Paralympics posters

Olympics and Paralympics posters

Photo taken at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo on Jan. 6, 2020, shows an official art poster for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, created by photographer Mika Ninagawa. Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics unveiled the 20 official art posters for the games -- 12 for the Olympics and eight for the Paralympics -- earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Newspaper for Paralympic athletes launched

Newspaper for Paralympic athletes launched

Photographer Mika Ninagawa (L) and Sae Tsuji, a Japanese track medalist at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics, hold a copy of the first issue of the Go Journal free newspaper at an event in Tokyo on Nov. 22, 2017. The publisher Nippon Foundation Paralympic Support Center plans to distribute the paper aimed at raising awareness of para athletes twice a year before the 2020 Games. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo