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Danielle Demetriou
Danielle Demetriou is a writer who swapped her native London for Tokyo in 2007. From art and design to business and fashion, she writes about all things Japan-related for international newspapers and magazines.
For Danielle Demetriou's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 27, 2010
Immersed in epic visions of nature
It is as epic as it is arresting. With a gentle whirr, thousands of white feathers are blown into the air in a vast clear space where they proceed to toss and tumble like snowflakes.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 6, 2010
Boltanski's hearts don't skip a beat
There are few places more remote. I wander along an overgrown path humming with birds and lined with rice fields before finding myself in front of a house on a small beach.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 2, 2010
The Royal Ballet pictured in style
A ballerina stands lightly en pointe in a monochrome photograph, feet arched to perfection and a hand stretched toward the sky. Another dancer mid-arabesque raises her back leg gracefully. A third is frozen leaping through the air with legs stretched into a perfect straight line.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 29, 2010
Why cook food when it is better for you raw?
Sixteen years ago, the Boutenkos were a family in crisis. Mother Victoria was overweight and depressed. Her husband, Sergei, had arthritis. Their teenage son was battling diabetes, while their daughter suffered from asthma.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Apr 23, 2010
"Taylor Deupree: Unseen"
NADiff ClosesApril 25
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 26, 2010
The colorful visions of a perpetual tourist
Beneath a hazy moon, a party is in full swing at a mountainside terrace overlooking the endless twinkling lights of a city that may or may not be Los Angeles.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 19, 2010
Motherly love, both romantic and vulgar
A naked mother radiates maternal happiness as she beams at the camera with her peachy-skinned wide-eyed baby clasped to her chest. Nearby, piercing blue eyes and oddly elongated ears frame a face attached to a wooden body with women's breasts and a solitary truncated hand hovering by its side.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 18, 2009
Have fun and play with your food
I slip a red dress over my head. The silhouette is fashionably curved, the fabric luxuriously soft and the hemline festooned with small red bobbles.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Dec 11, 2009
'CONSTELLATION 2'
Yuka Sasahara Gallery
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Oct 29, 2009
Tokyo's rising tide of design
Giant chairs, floating clouds and abstract boxes: forget anything as commercial as wanting to sell a product.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 23, 2009
A detour through the artist's mind
A scarlet fish head, the silhouette of a tree and a burned-out hole surrounded by scribbled thoughts may at first sight appear to inhabit different worlds.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 9, 2009
Kengo Kuma's Nezu Museum: an urban haven
"This is the maximum number of people that should ever come in here," says Kengo Kuma, glancing toward a small group of people murmuring quietly in front of a nearby Buddha statue. "It's much nicer when it's empty."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Aug 21, 2009
Timothy Saccenti: Garden of Unearthly Delights
Diesel Denim Gallery, Tokyo
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 7, 2009
The 'big bang' at Echigo-Tsumari
It is a picture-book perfect shrine. Tiny and tranquil, it is framed by a red gateway at the top of a winding forest path. But there is one surprising intrusion on the scene: a shiny Coca-Cola bench matching the vermilion hue of the shrine sits under its roof.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 24, 2009
La Machine invades Yokohama!
"You know 'e is a crazy man," Fredette, a feisty, flame- haired assistant, warns in a French accent as she hands over a yellow hard hat. "A mad man. Un fou. And very, very busy. You must be quick."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 17, 2009
Darkness at the opera
Say the word "opera," and a string of flamboyant images spring to mind, from vivid stage sets to dramatic divas — unless it's the world of opera as seen through the singular gaze of artist Sophy Rickett.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Apr 17, 2009
"Hiroko Inoue: Inside-Out"
Foil Gallery in Higashi-Kanda
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 27, 2009
Fine art takes over Tokyo for a week
Record bankruptcies around the world. Tumbling shares. Spiraling debt. Soaring unemployment. Escalating homelessness. And? A blossoming art scene.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 16, 2008
Rise of the spas
The world economy appears to be in free fall. Temperatures are plummeting toward zero, too. Work is stacking up perilously on the desk. Christmas celebrations and bonenkai (forget-the-year party) hangovers are setting in. Does this sound familiar?
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 4, 2008
A beautiful cultural blend: African kimono
Wander past a certain kimono store in Aoyama and center stage in the window is a riotous splash of canary- yellow cotton, with bright cubes of grass green and swirls of earthy brown. A tribal red-and-black obi tied high around the waist completes a perfectly styled kimono that on close inspection evokes not the misty mountains of Japan but the searing heat of another world: Africa.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
A peek inside the brains of ‘super-agers’
For a little more than a decade, scientists have been studying a subset of people they call "super-agers.” These individuals are age 80 and older, but they have the memory ability of a person 20 to 30 years younger.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.

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