Auguste Rodin’s contemplative bronze “The Thinker,” a cast of which sits in one corner outside the National Museum of Western Art (NMWA) in Ueno, Tokyo, might be turning over in his head ...

In June, a team led by Izumi Ogata, a specially appointed professor of museology at Kyushu Sangyo University, conducted an experiment at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo’s Ueno district.

the National Museum of Western Art, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the Ueno Royal Museum, the Shitamachi Museum, a scenic pond equipped with row boats, and plenty of verdant green space.