Sadao Asada, of Doshisha University in Kyoto, also drawing heavily on Japanese wartime sources, reached the same conclusion. “In the end,” he wrote in 1998, “it was the Hiroshima bomb that compelled ...

Fine art leads the sale with Hugh Steers’ moving 1989 oil-on-canvas In the Paper, at $40,000 to $60,000. Also by Steers are two 1988 oil-on-paper works: Pink Skirt and Red Flower ($5,000-8,000, each).

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Benji Asada was a Japanese Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in ...