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.
“It wasn’t so much the style of music as the attitude toward performing and doing shows. That’s what we wanted to bring back from America to Japan,” says Yasuaki Sakai, reminiscing about his immersion in America’s Pacific Northwest music scene that began nearly a ...
Everyone knows the iconic image of the DJ — the permanently worn headphones, satchel full of vinyl, twin Technics 1200 turntables — but that could all be about to change with iPod Battle Tokyo: The Clash this Friday, where nine DJ teams will fight ...
You’ve heard the stories: The music industry is in crisis, CD sales are dropping year on year, iTunes is taking over the world, the future is digital, the revolution is here. While a lot of this may be true, music fans could be forgiven ...
Roxy Music were a powerful force in 1970s pop, with their art-school roots an important aspect of their influential style. It is with a background of British Pop artists such as Richard Hamilton and David Hockney in mind that writer Michael Bracewell attempts to ...
“Exit” is Shugo Tokumaru’s first album since switching from a tiny indie label to the larger P-Vine Records, but the move hasn’t been accompanied by any compromise of the bedroom-music aesthetic that made his previous albums “L.S.T.” and “Night Piece” so beguiling. The melodies ...
Japanese punk’s first generation produced some of the country’s most creative and enduring music. The Tokyo Rockers scene of 1979 gave us Friction, formed by bassist Reck and drummer Chico-hige, formerly of New York’s Contortions; the Kansai No Wave scene produced punk poet Phew, ...
“Spoon Market” is more than just a music event. Organized by female new-wave/electro band Tokyo Pinsalocks and Holly, owner of live house Sangenjaya Heaven’s Door, the event includes live music and DJs, as well as video, art, photography and craft exhibits, fashion, food and ...
Formed in 2004 by two women called Ai — one a classically trained violinist whose hobbies include cooking, flower-arrangement and “home crafts,” the other a “Star Wars” fanatic and lightning-speed MC — Japanese technopop duo Miami are releasing their debut mini-album after a year ...
As comfortable playing traditional gig venues as they are art galleries, Tokyo girl duo Kiiiiiii have built their reputation on their live shows, in which vocalist U.T. and drummer Lakin’ dash through a technicolor car crash of songs and musical skits performed in the ...
“We were playing these 200-capacity venues that weren’t really legal. There were just too many people in there, climbing on the bar, climbing on the speakers and jumping off,” Chris Batten, the 20-year-old bassist from British post-hardcore band Enter Shikari tells The Japan Times. ...
