Ever since the success of Murakami Takashi, the main contribution made by Japanese contemporary art on the global stage has come from such sub cultural forms as Anime, computer games, Otaku and Kawaii. Moreover, a review of work by a new generation of contemporary artists reveals an attempt to combine traditional Japanese aesthetics and the innovative artistic expressive forms inherent in the language of western aesthetics. For the purposes of this exhibition, Soka Art Center invited 17 Japanese contemporary Japanese artists to work with 7 stylistically distinctive Japanese art galleries.