Gyoji Nomiyama, an oil painter who led the postwar art world with his free, abstract style, died of heart failure in Fukuoka on June 22. He was 102. A recipient of the Order of Culture ...

Gyoji Nomiyama is turning to painting to help ... In 1976, he joined a project of collecting pieces of art from bereaved families of painter students who died in the war. The endeavor led to ...