AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
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 ...
The art of Japanese textile will mix with the beauty of fashion from other Asian countries at the Sakura Collection this weekend. As an event meant to bring cultures together, it’s fitting that it will be held at Kansai International Airport. A fashion show ...
A soon-to-be-demolished school building might sound too spooky to be a venue for an art show, but that’s precisely where Trans Arts Tokyo is being held. The 17 above-ground floors and two basement floors that used to belong to Tokyo Denki University in the ...
The Tokyo-based Ryuzanji Company has been pushing the boundaries of contemporary drama since it was founded by director/actor Show Ryuzanji (whose real name is Shoji Fujioka) in 1984. Now, it is coproducing a huge musical with Toshima Ward centered on the northern Tokyo hub ...
Many young artists experience a make-or-break moment in their careers. For 24-year-old noh actor Motoi Imai, his debut as the shite (lead) character in the production of “Tsunemasa” could be that moment. Imai is the grandson of Yasuo Imai, a revered noh actor who ...
On Nov. 16, the Goethe-Institut Tokyo will host an event titled “Die Niemandsklänge” (“The Sounds of Nobody”), which will feature a symposium and a concert focusing on artistic expression in Japan following the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, and the ensuing ...
Japanese PR copywriters are addicted to a new buzzword: gotōchi (homegrown). It’s being used wherever possible to trumpet the peculiarities of local cultures — from gotōchi gurume (homegrown gourmet) to gotōchi aidoru (homegrown idols). In response to this supposed gotōchi boom, this weekend’s Tabi ...
It’s not often you can talk to artists when viewing their works, but it’s possible at the annual “Trolls in the Park 2012.” With Zenpukuji Park in Tokyo’s Suginami Ward serving as the venue, the alfresco art exhibition starts out with a tour headed ...
Attitudes toward RVs are changing as the once luxury items become more affordable according to the Japan Recreational Vehicle Association. The Nagoya Camping Car Fare hopes to appeal to new buyers, but the two-day event may also be fun for families that enjoy the ...
Tokyo’s Bunkyo Civic Hall will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of literary giant Ougai Mori with a one-off staging of Christoph W. Gluck’s 1762 opera “Orfeo ed Euridice” as translated and reworked by Mori, and simply retitled “Orpheus.” The performance will be ...
Expect a ghoulish time in Tokyo’s Omotesando when the area holds its “Hello Halloween Pumpkin Parade” (www.harajuku-halloween.com) on Oct. 28, in which some 1,300 costumed revelers are expected to march. The parade starts at 1 p.m. on Omotesando street (near the station) and finishes ...
One of Japan’s most respected exhibitions of prints takes place this weekend, as the Tokyo American Club plays host to the College Women’s Association of Japan’s annual print show. The star of the 57th CWAJ Print Show will be Hideshi Yoshida, a 43-year-old who ...
If you can’t bring the people to the art, take the art to the people: This thinking, which for more than a decade has inspired art-in-the-street and art-in-the-countryside projects, last year engendered its oddest event yet: “Art-in-the-underground-train-station-concourse”! Still, as the so-called Art Area B1 ...
