The Japanese have made the ordinary extraordinary, turning black metal manhole covers into well-rounded works of art. One Japanese man said, "Our elders sweated and struggled to make manhole ...

Let’s talk about manhole covers. Every city in the ... But all you have to do is travel to Japan to understand their potential to be works of art instead. [Photo: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images ...

Kyoto, the Japanese city often referred to as the country’s cultural capital, is renowned for its historic temples, its unique gardens—and its manhole covers. Unlike most sewage covers across ...

In Poland, manhole covers are dull ... The covers of manholes, which the Japanese have turned into a unique form of street art. Walking with your eyes fixed on the pavement is probably more ...

These are not the Gettys, Guggenheims or Nahmads of great art. But they are all points ... is where on this spectrum to place Japan and its iron manhole covers. Many Japanese are from a young ...

Today, manhole covers are a “region-specific” art form that attract their own aficionados, according to Web Japan. Some covers depict popular Japanese icons like Hello Kitty, Astro Boy and ...

Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo leans into a trendy artistic canvas in Japan to trace the players’ journeys to the global stage.

Major League Baseball will celebrate the league’s 12 active Japanese players through custom manholes that will feature one player in each design, to be installed at locations associated with that ...

A manhole cover featuring a Hello Kitty design is installed in Japan. City staff realized that the mundane, utilitarian covers for street manholes could be small works of art with a little ...

Major League Baseball has announced that special manhole covers featuring Japanese players currently active in the professional league will be installed in their hometowns, starting next Monday.

Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani is among 12 active Japanese MLB players that will be celebrated with custom manhole covers ...