The death toll from a blizzard that hit Hokkaido and the Tohoku region over the weekend has risen to nine, local police said Monday. The latest fatality as of Monday was Kuniko Jingi, 76, who was found collapsed under the snow on a road ...
Sleeping in. Breakfast in bed. Sunny brunches. Strolls in the park. Laid-back afternoon tea. Cocktails at sunset. Decadent late nights. Saturday — the word brings to mind a flurry of images associated with the first day of the weekend and the chances are, they ...
For the past year, Tokyo sixth-grader Manami has had dinner at home an average of four times a week. The rest of the time she has had to make do with a juku-ben, a boxed dinner prepared by her mother and consumed between classes ...
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, ...
Cuba overpowers China, winning 12-0 and advancing to the second round of the World Baseball Classic.
In late July, when the students of Osaka Institute of Technology’s Department of Architecture first arrived at the tiny port of Oharahama, an air of negativity hung over the conversation of the locals. “They were full of questions: Why did this have to happen ...
75 YEARS AGOFriday, Sept. 25, 1936 Navy to protect Japanese in Shanghai An important instruction was dispatched to the Commander of the Third Squadron this morning concerning the steps to be taken for the protection of life and property of Japanese residents in China. ...
During a speech to mark his receipt of The Japan Foundation Award for Arts and Culture late last year, there was one point that the widely respected film critic Tadao Sato was especially keen to convey to his Tokyo audience. “The city of Fukuoka ...
Whether you’re into cycling, running or swimming — or if you’ve got the masochistic bent of the triathlete — then there is an event taking place this weekend that is sure to set your heart racing. Not that you can still enter the marathon, ...
75 YEARS AGOSunday, Aug. 2, 1936 Tokyo gets IOC nod for 1940 Olympics All Japan is rejoicing today over the decision of the International Olympic Committee to award the 12th Olympic Games to the city of Tokyo. The vote was held in Berlin, where ...
In conversation, Tadanori Yokoo jumps nimbly between the past and the present. One moment he’s watching the sky glow red as bombs rain down on Kobe during World War II. The next he’s riding in a taxi with Yukio Mishima. And then he’s back ...
The summer just gets hotter and hotter for visual-art fans in Japan. Following on the heels of Art Fair Tokyo, which attracted 43,000 visitors to Tokyo International Forum last weekend, the nation’s largest art event of all, the once-every-three-years Yokohama Triennale, opens Saturday. Yoko ...
On the Japanese cultural calendar, visual-art events tend to take place in the more pleasant seasons of spring and autumn. Classical music and ballet have winter sewn up, with dozens of performances of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 or “The Nutcracker” being held ...
Welcome to the “art museum” where everything is on sale. At this year’s edition of Art Fair Tokyo, which was postponed after the March 11 earthquake and will be held July 29-31 at Tokyo International Forum, there are booth-displays from 133 commercial art galleries, ...
How do you create an advantage out of adversity, an asset from a liability? This kind of questioning, which has informed everything about the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, one of the world’s largest contemporary art festivals held in one of Japan’s most inhospitable locales, is ...
