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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto aims to retract his remark that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa should use its adult entertainment industry to avoid committing sex offenses.
Kan Yasuda's art somehow draws in the landscape, and entices in people, so that it is natural to explore the view through his structures and keyholes, to sit awhile atop a sculpture or to pose within their frames.
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
It may seem perverse to express nostalgia for a category of mental illness, but many sufferers, as well as some psychiatrists, regret the passing of “manic depression.”
Getting slapped by a a coach has always been, as far as I could see, simply another aspect of sports training in Japan.
A pile of small display cases lies in the dirt outside the Rikuzentakata City Museum. With their glass tops smashed into a thousand shards that reflect the sunlight through a layer of dried mud, it’s difficult to make out the crushed wings of the ...
How will the experience of the recent natural disasters impact on the work of Japan’s artists? It’s a question that is playing on the minds of many observers of the art world here these days, and it’s a question that is somewhat answered — ...
100 YEARS AGOFriday, May 5, 1911 Man’s suicide leads to another’s death A middle-aged man was found dead in his room at the Koyo-kan Inn in Yodobashi (now West Shinjuku, Tokyo) Wednesday, apparently having committed suicide by cutting his throat with a short sword. ...
An exhibition coming soon to the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography provides a rare chance to see how contemporary Japan looks from the perspective of hundreds of the nation’s best professional and amateur photographers. The Japan Professional Photographers Society, an association consisting of some ...
100 YEARS AGOTuesday, April 11, 1911 Yoshiwara blaze A fire which started in a room on the third floor of the Mikado-ro at number 20, Nichome, Edomachi, Yoshiwara (in Tokyo), about 11 o’clock Sunday morning swept an area four miles long and a mile ...
With all the aftershocks we’re feeling these days, the performers at this weekend’s Dance@Live street dance competition finals shouldn’t have any trouble making the ground shake. Held annually since 2005, Dance@Live is a knockout-style competition with preliminary rounds held across the country over several ...
The Earthquake Phenomena Observation System, located inside the Japan Meteorological Agency in Tokyo’s central Otemachi district, is usually operated by five teams of seven who work in rotating shifts that span every minute of the year. But at 2:46 p.m. on March 11 this ...
On Dec. 26, as the curtain came down on the 10th and final M-1 Grand Prix — an annual comedy competition aired live on TV Asahi — there was a distinct feeling that something special had been witnessed, that the performance of one duo ...
Prior to the Tohoku-Kanto earthquake and tsunami of March 11, two similar seismic events — both followed by tsunami — have recently wrought destruction on the northeastern coast of Japan’s main island of Honshu. This week and next, we dig into the archives of ...
“The Shibuya, Tokyo, studio is now shaking extremely strongly. The Shibuya, Tokyo, studio is shaking strongly.” So said announcer Kenzo Ito after turning to face a studio camera that had just gone live on NHK. It was 2:48 p.m. on the afternoon of March ...
Despite the sad irony of the title, given the events of the last few days, Happy Earth Day Osaka 2011 will go ahead as planned. The event, which will be held at Kyuhoji Ryokuchi Park on March 26 and 27, is organized by students ...
As a photographer, Hiroshi Sugimoto creates artworks that start off as visions from his imagination. His celebrated “Seascapes” series, for example, which features oceans and skies devoid of all traces of human activity, began with the notion of a vista that could be viewed ...