Transport authorities launched a full-fledged investigation Sunday into the derailment of a bullet train on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on Saturday afternoon.
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
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, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
Two hundred years ago this week, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and their Corps of Discovery set out to explore the American West. Sunday TIMEOUT asks what the expedition, its leaders and the Shoshone woman who was their guide still mean to us today “Meriwether ...
“I do not believe in imitation,” says Kazi Ghiyasuddin. “When I see something, my senses react. I want to portray that reaction through colors.” The 53-year-old artist is sitting in his kitchen in Tokyo’s Ota Ward, the room a riot of color. Paintings cover ...
“Othello” director Gregory Doran, 45, has been hailed by London critics as “the redeemer of the RSC.” He joined the company in 1987 as an actor, but soon turned to directing and often works in collaboration with his partner, Antony Sher. Last year he ...
The girl with a pearl earring, whoever she may be, is safely at home in the Netherlands. There, she’s the centerpiece of the Mauritshuis collection in The Hague, although her identity is as much of a mystery as ever — art history favored one ...
Sir Antony Sher was born near Cape Town, South Africa, in 1949. He moved to Britain in 1968 to attend drama school. His breakthrough performance was as Richard III for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984-5. Since then he has received many acting honors ...
The young woman seated in front of McDonald’s, her massive haunches spread wide underneath her, looks at first glance like a cautionary tale on the perils of fast food. It would have taken a McBreakfast, a McLunch and a McDinner every day from birth ...
Ancient Romans knew all about personality cults. Successful gladiators were the Beckhams and Ichiros of their day, celebrated in graffiti scrawled on city walls. Emperors from the time of Augustus (27 B.C.-A.D. 14) took it all one step further, with an official “cult” of ...
They called it the Belle Epo^que, the “Beautiful Age”: France’s brief period of grace after concluding peace with Prussia in 1871 and before the horrors of World War I turned her pastures into killing fields in 1914. “Paris 1900: Brilliance de la Belle Epo^que” ...
Was it really only 1995 when Bridget Jones chainsmoked her way through the first of many glasses of Chardonnay? These days, instead of knocking back her booze, Bridget would be more likely to swirl it round her mouth, before spitting neatly and remarking on ...
With Valentine’s Day just past, let’s pay tribute to one of the most enduring love affairs of our time — that between Japan’s gallery-going public and France’s Impressionist artists. It’s the Real Thing. Why else are there long lines for the Bunkamura’s new exhibition, ...
