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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
When speaking of Japanese art, people use words such as wabi and sabi, words that speak of a delicate sensibility and an ephemeral existence. Viewing the retrospective currently being hosted at the Musee Tomo in Tokyo’s central Toranomon district in celebration of the 100th ...
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
This weekend, six Kansai-based national museums will come together to showcase a broad array of works from their contemporary European collections. The participating galleries are Osaka City Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art; The Museum ...
The cherry-blossom parties may be winding down, but revelers in Nagoya don’t have to give up on the fun quite yet. On April 6 and 7, the annual Kakuozan Spring Festival takes place in Chikusa Ward. While hanami (cherry-blossom viewing) parties are essentially Japanese, ...
What do you get when you mix musicians, models and five dancing kids? It’s quite an impressive collection — in fact it’s the Fukuoka Asia Collection (FACo). On March 24 FACo will return to the Fukuoka Kokusai Center for the fifth time. The event, ...
Hisakichi Maeda is best known as the founder of the Sankei Shimbun and developer of the Tokyo Tower. But his interests spread to more down-to-earth enterprises, too. In 1962, four years after opening what was then Japan’s highest structure, Maeda opened a farm on ...
Of all the films the late actress Isuzu Yamada starred in, none of them better symbolized the vicissitudes of her real life than the 1936 “Naniwa Ereji (Naniwa Elegy).” Yamada, who died last year at the age of 95, went through at least three ...
Humans performing seemingly superhuman feats with style and panache: that’s the story of the Shenyang Acrobatic Troupe in a nutshell. The group is currently touring Japan with a show called “Sky Mirage,” in which acrobats delight audiences with amazing stunts such as drum juggling, ...
In order to escape the current harsh winter weather, some of us might be planning a getaway to somewhere nice and warm, such as Okinawa. But for the rest of us who can’t actually make the trip to Japan’s delightful subtropical region and lie ...
There is no better time than February and March to visit Kairakuen, the picturesque garden just south of Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, that was built in the 1840s by the seventh daimyo of the Mito clan, Tokugawa Nariaki. For starters, the 3,000-plus plum trees that ...
While it seems politics is all that comes to mind when talking about China these days, the current New Year’s holiday shows what a remarkable breadth of culture the country has. It just so happens that Yokohama is home to one of the biggest ...
Skiers and snowboarders who pass through JR Nagano Station should make the effort to take a short side trip to nearby Zenkoji Temple during the week starting Saturday. Wooden buildings that line the street approaching the popular temple will be lit up in five ...
Over the next month, Osaka restaurants will start preparing some award-winning dishes to serve up to lucky diners. The event is called Delice Restaurant Week, but the use of the word “week” is a bit of a misnomer. The event runs from Feb. 22 ...
Recent diplomatic squabbles between Japan and China have dampened enthusiasm around many bilateral events, but it seems nothing can dull the glow of the Nagasaki Lantern Festival, which will be held as always during the Chinese New Year. Commencing Feb. 10 and continuing for ...