18
LGT.RAIN
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.
Passionate Caribbean sounds are sure to excite those who choose to attend “Haiti Passion and Music: All Stars from a Musical Paradise,” a series of concerts that are to be held in major cities across Japan until Sept. 8. Ten musicians from Haiti will ...
The recruiters and job-seekers gathered recently in a hall in central Tokyo looked serious but excited as they sat facing each other and talking across tables. But this wasn’t an event pitching young men in suits against corporate managers. On this occasion the recruiters ...
Spicy curry, beautiful batik fabrics and traditional Javanese dancing, Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park will transform into a Little Indonesia Aug. 15-16. The second Citizen-Cooperation Festival Inter Japanese and Indonesian is organized by nonprofit group C.P.I. Japan and the Indonesian Youth Association. It’s a charity event ...
Enjoy beers and free live music from a variety of genres in Tokyo’s Shiodome. Caretta Beer Live is a series of concerts and performances held in the beer garden of Caretta Shiodome, a shopping mall by Tokyo Bay until Aug. 21. The live music ...
Do you know how to make salt? The Tobacco & Salt Museum in Tokyo is holding an exhibition on the world of salt making. Through a computerized Q&A system, children can study the process (in Japanese) by listening to salt makers. School teachers will ...
Tango, that intimate dance of sorrow and passion that has swept the world since it was first developed in Argentina around 130 years ago, has proved increasingly attractive to “social dancers” in Japan in recent years. As evidence of this, the 6th Tango Dance ...
Does the ocean glitter like a cool mirage in your overheated mind this summer? Rather than trek out to the real thing, all you have to do is dive up to the “Sky Aquarium III” exhibit running through Oct. 4 at Tokyo City View ...
In Yebisu Garden Place, a commercial complex in Tokyo’s Ebisu, films from Japan and other countries will be shown free of charge on Friday evenings, weekends and holidays from July 17 to Aug. 9. For “Starlight Cinema 2009,” visitors can watch movies in the ...
Does drinking, dancing and enjoying a magnificent view on a ferry cruising around Tokyo Bay sound like a great night out to you? If so, check out the Tokyowannoryosen (“Tokyo Bay ferry for cooling off”), organized by ferry operator Tokaikisen, which will cruise every ...
Considering that Japan is only 40 percent self-sufficient in terms of its food supply, few would dispute that the country’s agriculture is in a deepening crisis. Yet in these times, more and more of Japan’s city-dwellers are now becoming interested in agriculture both as ...
Considering that Japan is only 40 percent self-sufficient in terms of its food supply, few would dispute that the country’s agriculture is in a deepening crisis. Yet in these times, more and more of Japan’s city-dwellers are now becoming interested in agriculture both as ...
Shaved ice is the perfect way to cool down during Japan’s scorching summers, and at the Kakigori Matsuri (Festival of Shaved Ice) Namco Namjatown, a theme park in Tokyo, visitors can experience all sorts of weird and wonderful flavors of the sweet snack between ...