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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto aims to retract his remark that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa should use the local adult entertainment industry to avoid committing sex crimes.
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.
The ancient Chinese practice of Taoism tells us that “sexual energy is not just about sex!” That’s perhaps a bit hard to swallow in today’s day and age, when this basic human instinct often gets a bad rap as being dirty and sordid. But ...
‘I want to open 1 million laughter clubs around the world in the next 10 years in the hope of bringing about world peace.” These are the words of Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of Laughter Yoga, a popular form of yoga that has tickled ...
The dearth of good comedy in English in Tokyo will be relieved in a few weeks’ time, when Tokyo International Players — a 100-percent volunteer-run company that has been entertaining theatergoers since 1896 — will present “The Plaza Suite” at Akasaka V Theater. And ...
Ha-ha, funny isn’t it, but Laughter Yoga has nothing to do with telling jokes. In fact, humor plays no part in this unusual form of the ancient Hindu discipline. Here, laughter has to be unconditional. But, shame to say, it was the innocent appeal ...
Budding artists need to be given a chance to show the world what they have got. Design Festa offers just this. Ever since it started in 1994, this twice-yearly event has been open to artists from all over the world to exhibit their talent. ...
Lhamo Thondup was born on July 6, 1935 in Taktster, a small village in the Amdo region of northeast Tibet. But neither his parents — farmers who grew barley, buckwheat and potatoes — nor his three elder brothers and one elder sister (a younger ...
“Open Your Heart,” a charity exhibition that includes photos from Tibet, France and Japan, will take place in Kamakura from Dec. 1 to 9 to aid the plight of Tibetan orphans. The exhibition opens with a musical event featuring Tibetan dancers, a biwa (Japanese ...
The Dalai Lama indicated Monday in an interview that he had set a budding democratic process in motion in Tibet that was effectively doomed by China’s invasion in the early 1950s. “Even when I was in Tibet around 1952, I started some changes that ...
Imagine an oblong balloon that’s longer than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet and has a small glass bowl of a passenger compartment dangling precariously from its underbelly. Despite the slogan “Fly with me” emblazoned along its length, the Zeppelin NT didn’t look like the ...
Farmers from all over Japan will assemble in Shiba Park in Tokyo’s Minato Ward on Nov. 11 to join the Earth & Peace Festival — an event that will appeal to fans of organic veggies everywhere. The festival has been organized by volunteers called ...
At around 100 pages long, “Animal Farm” is a sliver of a publication. But what the book lacks in length, it makes up for in content. For the International Theatre Company London’s (ITCL) 29th Japan Tour, the troupe will perform a stage adaptation of ...
Visit Kyoto by train and the first thing you will encounter will be Kyoto Station, an immense structure that was criticized by many of the city’s inhabitants when it was completed as the antipathy of what the Japan’s cultural capital stands for. But from ...