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Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“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, ...
“Outsider art” is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene. Now, though, “Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan,” an exhibition on view (through June 30) ...
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
Sitting under the glare of the runway lights for three weeks of fashion shows, watching model after model sashaying up and down the catwalk, isn’t such a bad way to spend time. It’s kind of like traveling. For the recent Tokyo collections, we joined ...
The offerings by over 40 designers at the recent Tokyo collections mapped out the direction for next autumn/winter: bias or asymmetrical cuts, draping and wrapping, patchwork, fringing and quilting, and lots of stripes (both vertical and horizontal). A growing interest in high-tech fabrics was ...
Birders, bird-watchers, bird-spotters, ornithologists, listers, twitchers or birding dudes: Whatever you want to call them, they are the people — a friend, a family member or maybe an eccentric relative — who creep about at all hours of the day spotting, studying, grilling, scoping, ...
Japanese names at the Paris men’s collections these days are rather thin on the ground — at the most recent presentations, for autumn/winter 2001/02, only four Tokyo designers showed. Naoki Takizawa absconded to Milan in 1997 with the Issey Miyake Men brand, and Kenzo ...
At the beginning of the new millennium Japan is Asia’s fashion ground zero, a place where street fashion in its myriad forms is helping inspire a new generation of young designers. One such newcomer to Japan’s fashion ranks is Juro Mimori, whose Mimori brand ...
The festive season is over for another year, and now it’s time to face the aftereffects of too much turkey, plum pudding and alcohol. While the only true way to whip a flabby body into shape is regular exercise, a little buffing and pampering ...
Menswear was, as usual, relegated to the back seat in the recent Tokyo collections, and only a handful of designers showed any. Given the quality of male models used on the runways, however, this was probably in the designers’ best interests. At Comme Ca, ...
The recent Tokyo collections, for spring/summer 2001, brought together over 50 designers for two weeks of shows. Glancing through the show schedule it’s soon obvious that some of the big names are missing: no Yohji Yamamoto, no Comme des Garcons. Time marches on, and ...
Just ahead of the Tokyo collections, in which over 50 designers will show their spring/summer 2001 collections this week and next, here are some things to do if your name’s not on the invite list or if you are looking for a fashion-related event ...
There’s a new tenant on Ginza’s shopping street, a new jewel. Or, to be more precise, a whole treasure trove of them — diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires — all sparkling, dazzling and demanding attention. And not just a few, either. Lots of them. A ...
Let’s begin with the keywords: graceful, feminine, sharp, inspired. A kimono tunic is hand-painted with cranes, wisteria and other flowers. Haute couture by Hanae Mori, who in 1977 became the first (and, to date, the only) Japanese designer to be admitted to the prestigious ...
KARAMATSU PEAK, Nagano Pref. — The sight of the red and green mountain huts nestled below the summit of Mount Karamatsu was a welcome one. It was there that I planned to rest my aching legs for the coming night. These oniyuri lilies are ...