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Osaka – Blinded by neon lights and buildings decked out in colorful ads, you might not notice at first that Japanese cities lack the graffiti culture found in places like New York or Berlin.
Street art has long been viewed by both Japanese law and most of society as vandalism, though that is slowly changing.
Murals have appeared in sanctioned spaces in Tokyo and Osaka, such as parking garages, warehouses, sports stadiums and hotels, facilitated by organizations that position themselves as bridges between street art culture and Japan’s social and visual order.
