Transport authorities launched a full-fledged investigation Sunday into the derailment of a bullet train on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on Saturday afternoon.
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
Japan’s first toy-piano concert by accomplished Japanese pianists will be held in Tokyo on Sept. 29. Ranging from 10 to 37 keys and primarily designed as educational tools for small children, toy pianos have also been used in “serious” musical endeavors, such as “Suite ...
All-male celebrity choir Roppongi Dansei Gasshodan Club (better known as Rokudan) will perform a concert on Aug. 21 as a precursor to the inaugural Karuizawa Arts Festival 2007 (Aug. 20-26). Rokudan will sing the cantanta “Tengai” by renowned Japanese composer Shigeaki Saegusa. The choir ...
The nonprofit organization The Classic Live for the United Nations, Japan will present its annual musical of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic children’s novel “Anne of Green Gables” at Tokyo International Forum on Sept. 29-30. Since forming in 1991, the NPO has grown into a ...
Taking place this weekend in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, International Heart Expo 2007 is a charity event that aims to take “direct action” to support children in developing countries. Volunteers from Japan and abroad will participate. The expo will host a charity market and ...
The Kawaguchi-Ko Music Forest Museum in Yamanashi Prefecture is currently holding an exhibit through November 18 from its own collection of animated dolls (automata) and singing mechanical bird boxes. Though their origins date back to Ancient Greece, automata crafted by Europe’s finest watchmakers in ...
Christopher Yohmei Blasdel will perform a concert commemorating his 35 years of playing the shakuhachi on June 9 in Sendagaya, Tokyo. Born in Texas, Blasdel came to Japan as a student in 1972, when he began studying Japanese music and the shakuhachi (bamboo flute) ...
The venerable National Museum of Western Art in Ueno Park, Tokyo will hold its first-ever “fun day” on May 12 and 13, during which the museum’s permanent exhibition will be open to everybody — adults and children — for free. (Entrance to the permanent ...
The Donizetti Theatre, one of Italy’s best-known spaces for traditional opera, is currently touring Japan for the first time. The theater is situated in Bergamo, a city 50 km east of Milan, which was the birthplace of Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). Formed in ...
On Dec. 31, the Marunouchi Building’s grandiose first floor, Marucube, will be filled with the sound of a large choir singing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 “Choral.” This symphony is referred to as “Daiku” in Japan and is a favorite classical piece that is often ...
Top Italian chamber group I Solisti Filarmonici Italiani will perform a Christmas concert accompanied by soloists Ayako Takagi, Mayako Sone and Ai Okumura in Tokyo on Dec. 23. The chamber group, known for its bright ensemble playing, comprises musicians with experience as concertmasters and ...
