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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
The fellow passengers on the weekend “holiday special express” from Shinjuku to Okutama or Musashi-Itsukaichi — an hour northwest of Tokyo — are a strange melange: There are lots of young men — often much the worse for wear — going home after a ...
As the single flashing beam of the lighthouse struggled to make itself seen in the misty half-light, the Toppy 2 high-speed ferry bumped its way across the waves on the east side of the island of Yakushima, southeast of Kyushu. Within minutes we were ...
A stroll around Hanae Mori’s retrospective, being held until April 11 at the New National Theater in Shinjuku, is for me like wandering back down memory lane: I remember admiring the floral dresses — peonies or wisteria — when, in a flash of brilliant ...
Among the new kids on the block at Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo this season, the only one in the menswear department was the Rochas line by Masatomo, whose elegant but unpretentiously tailored pieces are created under an agreement between Tokyo-based Renown Inc. and ...
FOPING PANDA RESERVE, China — “There! In that tree, a month ago, the Netherlands lady saw a baby panda. She was so excited!” Great, I thought, at least she got to see one — and I could see the same tree trunk, with an ...
In the fickle world of fashion, where players come and go with the regularity of the seasons that their working lives are firmly pinned to, there are fortunately just a few who hang in there to lend some sense of continuity. While Paris, the ...
The Spring/Summer 2005 Tokyo Collections — the autumnal tranche of the biannual extravaganza of fashion shows presented by the Council of Fashion Designers, Tokyo, along with their vernal offering in April — has just wound up giving the press and buyers a preview of ...
If there is one garment that is ubiquitous throughout the land, it is the business suit. And, if there is one spot on this big, friendly planet that can be referred to as its home — in its unadulterated form — it is London’s ...
Spurned by many top Japanese designers, patchy in quality and sprawling over a month at a mishmash of venues, the twice-yearly Tokyo Collections — whose fall/winter 2004/05 shows end this week — still lay claim to being the highpoints of Asia’s fashion year. But ...
For the young British-Japanese fashion design duo of Patrick Ryan and Mami Yoshida, the words yab and yum — which, together as Yab-Yum, give their label its name — are a good fit for this Tokyo-based team when you search out their real meanings. ...
Japan’s recession, the pundits say, is dragging on. More unemployment, less yen in the government’s coffers, and people from Hokkaido to Okinawa tightening their belts another notch. But amid all this, the rag trade struggles forward. New boutiques open, new magazines come out and ...
It’s party time in Tokyo — again. You know, that twice yearly event when the capital’s trendy restaurants and coffee shops seem to be overflowing with leggy, blonde models from overseas. They’re here to make a few bucks, have a few parties — and ...