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.
Mike Sunda is a music writer focusing primarily on electronic music and the Tokyo club scene. He graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, England with a degree in Japanese and has been contributing to The Japan Times since 2010.
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The Red Bull Music Academy studios in South London are the venue for my interview with Ross Birchard (26) and Lunice Fermin Pierre II (24) — better known as Hudson Mohawke and Lunice — about their new project TNGHT. As graduates of the classes ...
DJ Ken-ske (real name Kensuke Sato) is a DJ’s DJ — he eschews celebrity club culture in favor of a purists’ approach to the medium, which allows him to play more than 100 gigs a year. Although primarily mixing hip-hop in a B-boy style, ...
A mainstay of the Tokyo underground electronic scene and cofounder of the Raid System label/collective, XLII (pronounced slee) also regularly tours Europe, where his fan base stretches from London to Kiev. Here he shares tried-and-tested dancefloor destroyers with The Japan Times, including a tune ...
It’s early on a Saturday evening at the 1-2-3-4 Shoreditch festival in London and Lapalux is taking the stage. He’s only armed with a laptop, a MIDI controller and some select software, but the hundreds in the audience haven’t shown up expecting a flashy ...
When Rustie (Russell Whyte, 29) makes his Japan debut at SonarSound Tokyo this weekend, it will mark the culmination of a remarkable few years that has seen the Scottish producer swap house parties in his hometown of Glasgow for headline spots at some of ...
When U.S. act Washed Out hit the Red Marquee stage on Friday night, that’s when the Fuji Rock Festival 2011 really began to get going. Coming off a drab performance at May’s Freaks Festival that left many disappointed, singer Ernest Greene was determined to ...
Aside from being one half of successful J-pop duo m-flo, Taku Takahashi is also one of the most established DJs in Japan’s club scene. So when Takahashi talks dance music — people listen. Just as well, as that’s exactly what he’s doing with his ...
Brooklyn-based hip-hop artist MeccaGodZilla is no stranger to Japanese audiences. Indeed it is his travels and love for the country that have inspired his latest release, “Perfect 天” (ten, heaven), for which he has also taken on the new moniker “Ryu Black.” To be ...
Coming off the release of his “Flavor of Vice” EP on Slye Records last month, Eccy gives The Japan Times a peek into his record bag. Golden Oldie: Nirvana — “Lithium” (Geffen). I really do love this song, and the lyrics are great. Although ...
“I think people come to my shows to hear a ‘nostalgic’ sound, something that they might have otherwise forgotten,” says Hideki Matsutake, who has been at the forefront of Japan’s electronic music scene since its beginnings. Fans of Yellow Magic Orchestra may know Matsutake ...
