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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 ...
An Argentine tango themed on the “Tale of Genji,” a Japanese novel written 1,000 years ago, will be performed this month in Tokyo and Nagoya. The tango, titled “Jyoen” (“Passion of Fire”), mixes Argentine and Japanese arts and is being held as one of ...
A special screening of vintage Japanese films in Tokyo on Sept. 27 will showcase six silent movies from the 1920s and ’30s. One of the films, a 1935 animation titled “Issun-boshi: Chibisuke Monogatari” (“Little Boy’s Story”) is based on one of the oldest Japanese ...
An exhibition of photos from Japan’s postwar era taken by two young men from Holland is being held in Tokyo until Sept. 30. The exhibition “Showa Japan Seen Through Dutch Eyes” is being staged by the Japan-Netherlands Society to commemorate the 150th anniversary of ...
The use of solar energy to generate power and to heat water is gradually spreading in Japan, but the most basic use of sunshine is yet to come out of the shadows — namely, for lighting. To save on the amount of electricity that ...
“Fragment,” a documentary film by the young director Makoto Sasaki that follows the journey of a young Buddhist monk will be shown on Aug. 26 in Tokyo. Sasaki’s friend, Jicchoku Inoue, born in 1977, was working as an actor and TV personality. But after ...
Tokyo’s Asakusa district, central to the capital’s traditional shitamachi (downtown) area, will be filled with Brazilian rhythm on Aug. 30 for the 28th Asakusa Samba Carnival. The event, held annually since 1981 on the last Saturday of August, was launched to revitalize the town ...
Amanojaku, an ensemble of taiko Japanese drummers, will hold concerts on Aug. 13 and 14 in Tokyo to commemorate the centennial of Japanese migration to Brazil, which started in 1908. Seven of the group’s professional drummers and eight of their students will play selections ...
More than 160 modern artworks will grace some 760 sq. km of rural Niigata Prefecture during August at the Echigo-Tsumari Daichi no Matsuri (Festival of the Earth) in the agricultural region of Echigo-Tsumari. Among the creations by artists from Japan and overseas is an ...
Love’s warmth can be found in the coldest of places — and among the wildest of creatures. A photo exhibition titled “White Gift,” which features polar bears sharing intimate communication, will he held in Tokyo from July 25 to August 8. The pictures depict ...
No one in Japan can avoid the sweat and smells of hot humid summer, regardless of sex, age or ethnicity. But a recent survey on body odor reeked of bad news for men. Chuo Bussan International Co., a deodorant maker in Tokyo, polled some ...
Aline of banana leaves topped with plastic rice and vegetables of the sort found outside Japanese restaurants trails across the room. Painted footprints rest in front of each one. The installation, titled “Leftovers,” is by Indian artist N.S. Harsha and is being exhibited in ...
The Group of Eight summit began Monday at the Windsor Hotel Toya, an exquisite, maximum- security resort in Hokkaido. There, the world’s top leaders are holed up in conference rooms, trying to strike last-minute deals on various global issues, the most disputed of all ...