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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, ...
Manchester United's Shinji Kagawa is back with a bang, becoming the first Asian player to score a hat trick in the English Premier League.
Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage crisis drama “Argo” won the coveted best film Oscar on Sunday at the 85th Academy Awards, Hollywood’s biggest night. Taiwan-born Ang Lee won best director for the 3-D fantasy spectacular “Life of Pi,” Daniel Day-Lewis took home an unprecedented third best-actor award for “Lincoln” and Jennifer ...
World-renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa will make a comeback in August at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, conducting French composer Maurice ...
The late filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and three of his collaborators were honored by the Writers Guild of America, West at ...
British actor Richard Briers, an avuncular comic presence on TV and movie screens for decades, has died at the age of 79. Briers’ agent, Christopher Farrar, said Monday that the actor died at his London home on Sunday. A onetime heavy smoker, he had ...
A documentary about an elderly man’s struggle and success in rebuilding his home after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami received a special mention Saturday at the 63rd Berlin international film festival. Directed by Kaoru Ikeya, “Senzo ni Naru” (“Becoming an Ancestor”), which has ...
The producer of an upcoming Taiwanese film about the island’s first baseball team said he is confident it will resonate with audiences the world over. “I hope the audience looks at Taiwan’s history like they look at their life story,” Wei Te-sheng said. “No ...
The pop-rockers fun. win song of the year at the Grammy Awards for their transcendent anthem, “We Are Young,”
U.S. television network CBS may have warned stars not to show too much skin on stage Sunday at the Grammys, but the music industry’s A-listers tested the limits in body-conscious, revealing gowns. Jennifer Lopez, whose plunging barely-there green Versace gown at the 2000 Grammys ...
A documentary about an elderly man who lost his home to the massive tsunami following the March 2011 earthquake and eventually succeeded in building a new one in the same neighborhood will open Feb. 16 in theaters across Japan. Directed by Kaoru Ikeya, 54, ...
A portrait by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani of his lover Jeanne Hebuterne went under the hammer in London on Wednesday for £26.9 million ($42.3 million), Christie’s auction house said. The final price for the 1919 portrait, “Jeanne Hebuterne (Wearing a Hat)” was well more ...
The first all-girl rock band in Indian-controlled Kashmir has decided to disband after only one concert because of threats its teenage members received on social media and a demand from a top Muslim cleric that they stop performing. The fate of Pragaash, which means ...
Poet Saw Wai parked himself on the lawn, unfurled a map of Myanmar with a blob of blood-red paint dripping down from a spot up north and invited people to make poetry with him. “He’s calling for more trouble,” said a passer-by. What the ...
“Les Miserables” has grossed a record ¥4.2 billion in Japan since it hit movie theaters in December, the most ever for a musical, according to distributor Toho-Towa Co. The record had been held by the 2005 film “The Phantom of the Opera” based on ...
The Berlin International Film Festival will support a movie festival to be held in earthquake- and tsunami-hit Sendai in March, Dieter Kosslick, director of the world-renowned Berlinale, said. The local festival, named “Berlinale in Sendai,” is being organized by a group of the city’s ...
Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi revealed her love of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” books as she waxed lyrical about her favorite reads at Myanmar’s first international literary festival on Saturday. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who spent years under house arrest under Myanmar’s ...
