For Andrew Lee's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
In Tokyo alone, Murakami’s commercial work can be seen in the official mascots for the Roppongi Hills complex and Tokyo MX TV station.
"Kurai" ("It's dark") says someone as we open the door at the new entrance of Nanzuka gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo. Yet, the freshly painted black walls and dimly lit stairs inside set the mood for a gallery specializing in underground art, and provide the ...
Until July 24 While many artists have been attracted to the no-go zone around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power planet, no one has been as successful in conveying the human tragedy of the area as photographers Carlos Ayesta and Guillaume Bression. In the five ...
Ebisu Yokocho has never looked so fabulous. It's the night before Halloween and costumed women with talon-like nails and feathered eyelashes snake their way through a boisterous crowd crammed into this narrow alley of food stalls and bars. The smell of booze and grilled ...
The current revival of the musical “Pippin” playing at Theatre Orb in Shibuya’s Hikarie building is, quite literally, breathtaking. A show within a show, “Pippin” smashes the fourth wall with a performing troupe of circus acrobats and dancers led by a Leading Player who ...
The Kiss show at Tokyo Dome on March 3 was the third time I've seen the band play live. The first time was in Sydney in 1980 — my first-ever live concert. At 13, I was a massive Kiss fan, dressed to the nines and ...
Japan Times On Sunday contributors select the responses that made them laugh loudest over the past 12 months
Outside the vista windows of the Hotel New Otani's Garden Lounge cafe in Tokyo, it's snowing, in March, and it suddenly feels like the spring flowers in the Japanese garden below may have popped too soon. David Mitchell wonders aloud what kind of flowers ...
You have to wonder whether the vein of vampire stories will ever be sucked dry, and yet the blood just keeps on flowing with the release of "Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign" from Viz. Seraph of the End: ...
Naoki Urasawa is one of the giants of modern manga and is perhaps best known outside Japan for his epic series "Nijuseiki Shonen (20th Century Boys)" and "Pluto," his reinterpretation of Osamu Tezuka's "Tetsuwan Atom (Astro Boy)." In "Monster," too, it could be argued ...
