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Friday, Feb. 3, 2012

ENTERTAINMENT SPOTLIGHT

Film shows FBI chief 'as a man and a myth'

DiCaprio visits America's dark past in 'J. Edgar'

By GEORGE HADLEY-GARCIA

Leonardo DiCaprio admits that he didn't hear much about the famously feared J. Edgar Hoover while he was growing up. That doesn't stop him from making an astute observation: "The man was a troll." ...

Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012

BOOK

Nuclear crisis given lightweight treatment

By JEFF KINGSTON

Bold move into Tamura's cold verse

By DAVID BURLEIGH

Friday, Feb. 3, 2012

FILM

'Shinobido (Shinobido — Way of the Ninja)'

Ninja and samurai need love like a sword in the guts

By MARK SCHILLING

Ninja movies come with certain expectations, especially in the West. One is for action of the fantastic sort, with the ...

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012

MUSIC

Warner's Ishizaka says 'exterminate' illegal downloads

By STEVE MCCLURE

Not many music-business executives compare themselves to Oda Nobunaga or Napoleon Bonaparte. ...

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012

ART

The rootless woodblock prints of Kuniyoshi

By C.B. LIDDELL

There have been several exhibitions of the 19th-century ukiyo-e (woodblock print) artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi in recent years. In 2009, there ...

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012

MUSIC

Sekaitekina Band "Sekaitekina Band"

By DAISUKE KIKUCHI

Tokyo Jihen "Color Bars"

By PATRICK ST. MICHEL

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012

ART

"Winter Exhibition of Netsuke Art by Jin Kuwabara"

By TOMOKO HORI

"Feel and Think: A New Era of Tokyo Fashion"

By TOMOKO HORI

Friday, Feb. 3, 2012

FILM

'Machine Gun Preacher'

The man who hoed his row (and then some)

By KAORI SHOJI

'Machine Gun Preacher" is extraordinary on two levels: First, it's based on a true story about a man who went ...

Friday, Feb. 3, 2012

FILM

'The Hunter' / 'Poetry'

What happens when the 'right' thing isn't right after all?

By GIOVANNI FAZIO

One of cinema's most constant motifs is the flawed, morally corrupt character who in the last reel listens to his ...

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012

ART

A contemporary mix of nihonga and manga

By MATTHEW LARKING

Nobuya Hoki's work oscillates between two of the major trends in Japanese contemporary art since the 1990s: manga-inspired themes and ...

Friday, Jan. 27, 2012

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ENTERTAINMENT

DiCaprio visits America's dark past in 'J. Edgar'

Nuclear crisis given lightweight treatment

Bold move into Tamura's cold verse

'Shinobido (Shinobido — Way of the Ninja)'

Ninja and samurai need love like a sword in the guts

Warner's Ishizaka says 'exterminate' illegal downloads

The rootless woodblock prints of Kuniyoshi

Sekaitekina Band "Sekaitekina Band"

Tokyo Jihen "Color Bars"

"Winter Exhibition of Netsuke Art by Jin Kuwabara"

"Feel and Think: A New Era of Tokyo Fashion"

'Machine Gun Preacher'

The man who hoed his row (and then some)

'The Hunter' / 'Poetry'

What happens when the 'right' thing isn't right after all?

"Wonder Seeds 2012"

"Atsuko Tanaka. The Art of Connecting"

Retaining a 'Japaneseness' in Western style art

A contemporary mix of nihonga and manga

'Late Bloomers'

Growing old gracefully is not as easy as it sounds

FBI icon's sexuality as intriguing as his policies?

'Arakawa' adaptation washes up on love's muddy banks

Japan's good old days airbrushed to cartoonish perfection

After a 21-year break, can Hellman top his own masterpiece?

"Jack Goldstein"

"Muneyoshi Yanagi"

"Directory of Edo Stars"

Japan's role in the 19th-century modernization of Chinese art

Florence exorcises her lungs

Shibuya style with an Akihabara twist?

The Creams "Panache"

Ethnic Minority "Startin' "

Condors fly in the face of contemporary dance scene

'Spamalot' cast hopes 2012 is Year of the Python

Kabuki returns to its Asakusa home for special New Year's performances

Japan's dramatists take on the 'nuclear village'

Fresh light on history books

Grace shines through Nagai's tales of horror

The other side of world's 'worst battle'

Holding court on warped ideas of sex and love

Figurines become art at event

Ice sculptures, snow slides at Hokkaido fest

It takes more than two to tango

New National Theatre, Tokyo, opens season with Puccini classic