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For the most complex heroines in animation, look to Japan

Film

For the most complex heroines in animation, look to Japan

by Charles Solomon

The girls and women of anime tend to experience the conflicting emotions of real life. That’s because the auteurs try to create “an everyday, real person.”

Thailand bets on dramatic 'boys' love' tourism boom

Film

Thailand bets on dramatic 'boys' love' tourism boom

by Genki Ito

Thailand has begun a campaign to attract international tourists, and especially Japanese travelers, using the popularity of homegrown productions of "boys' love," or BL dramas.

'Softly': Tatsuro Yamashita looks to the future with timeless optimism

Music

'Softly': Tatsuro Yamashita looks to the future with timeless optimism

by Patrick St. Michel

Two Tatsuro Yamashitas exist in 2022. There’s Tatsuro Yamashita, the patron saint of city pop and a musical symbol for all things bubble-era Japan. As a younger generation in Japan and abroad long for the perceived ease and excess of the 1970s and ’80s, ...

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Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo to assume esteemed family stage name of Danjuro

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Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo to assume esteemed family stage name of Danjuro

The stage name was established in the latter part of the 17th century, and is considered the most prestigious of the Kabuki stage names.

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    Net-zero Picasso: Museums rethink art shows to cut climate impact

    by Joanna Gill
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    Japanese-owned Stradivarius violin sells for $15 million at auction

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    Police probe death of popular Bollywood singer KK at 53

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    Brutal class satire 'Triangle of Sadness' wins Cannes Palme d'Or

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    'Goodfellas' actor Ray Liotta dead at 67

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    Depeche Mode keyboardist Andy Fletcher dies

FILM

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‘Kami wa Mikaeri o Motomeru’: YouTuber drama leaves a nasty aftertaste

Film / Reviews

‘Kami wa Mikaeri o Motomeru’: YouTuber drama leaves a nasty aftertaste

by James Hadfield

Director Keisuke Yoshida wades into morally gray territory in his film about a middle-aged man with a vendetta against an aspiring influencer.

  • Film / Reviews

    'Love Is Light': Charming rom-com puts a fresh spin on love triangles

    by Mark Schilling
  • Film

    Filmmaker Chie Hayakawa imagines a Japan where the elderly volunteer to die

    by Motoko Rich
  • Film

    French-Lebanese film wins top award at Asia short film festival

    by Donican Lam
  • Film / Reviews

    'Tokyo 2020 Side B': Behind the scenes of the 'pandemic Olympics'

    by Mark Schilling
  • Film / Reviews

    ‘Plan 75’: A chilling look at a callous future society

    by James Hadfield
  • Film

    Films and publications explore lives of Kurdish diaspora in Japan

    by Sho Hirakawa

MUSIC

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Baseball dance craze has the internet asking again, 'What does the fox say?'

Music | Japan Pulse

Baseball dance craze has the internet asking again, 'What does the fox say?'

by Patrick St. Michel

What started out as a fun segment between innings at Nippon Ham Fighters' games now has athletes, fans and netizens busting a move to Ylvis’ chart-topping 2013 hit “The Fox."

  • Music

    Sakanaction, tofubeats and Tohji reimagine the album format in 2022

    by Patrick St. Michel
  • Music

    7FO's hypnotic 'Music for Himitsu' embraces the wonders of nature

    by Russell Thomas
  • Music

    Emotional BTS tell fans they're taking a break to 'figure things out'

  • Music

    Musician Ryuichi Sakamoto battling stage 4 cancer

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    Harry and the house that Hosono built

    by Patrick St. Michel
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    Japan's music festivals are prepping for a summer comeback

    by Patrick St. Michel

BOOKS

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‘An Immense World’ is a thrilling tour of nonhuman perception

Books

‘An Immense World’ is a thrilling tour of nonhuman perception

by Jennifer Szalai

Ed Yong’s book urges readers to break outside their “sensory bubble” to consider the unique ways that dogs, dolphins, mice and other animals experience their surroundings.

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    Director Werner Herzog finally finds his medium

    by Alexandra Alter
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    'Emergent Tokyo' digs into an urban sprawl borne from chaos and order

    by Spencer Cohen
  • Books / Reviews

    Toshio Watanabe lifts the veil on the bureaucrats who developed Taiwan

    by Martin Laflamme
  • Books / Reviews

    Revisiting Jun'ichiro Tanizaki’s flawed families in 'Longing and Other Stories'

    by Iain Maloney
  • Books / Reviews

    Trips to Kamusari bring diminishing returns

    by Iain Maloney
  • Books

    Approaching tea like you would wine, Zach Mangan gives Japan's main drink its due

    by Florentyna Leow

STAGE

Drama and exhibition portray the struggles and successes of Japanese women who moved to the U.K.

Stage

Drama and exhibition portray the struggles and successes of Japanese women who moved to the U.K.

by William Hollingworth

The stories document the interviewees' changing relationships with both Britain and Japan and unveil the shifting views of Japan in Britain over many decades.

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    'My Neighbor Totoro' to be adapted into stage play in Britain

  • Stage

    'Blood Brothers' tells a tangled tale of nature versus nurture

    by Nobuko Tanaka
  • Stage

    Yuriko, keeper of Martha Graham’s flame, is dead at 102

    by Anna Kisselgoff
  • Stage

    Theater Commons Tokyo rethinks the 'voices' of performing arts in the COVID era

    by Andrew Eglinton and Mika Eglinton
  • Stage

    Saitama Gold Theater players take their final bow after 15 years

    by Nobuko Tanaka
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    Kabuki actor and national treasure Nakamura Kichiemon dies at 77

ART

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‘Love’ exposes taboos and absurdity of social conventions

Art

‘Love’ exposes taboos and absurdity of social conventions

by Lance Henderstein

Photographer Hideka Tonomura's explores her interpretation of 'the essence of love and life' in a trio of projects that defies personal boundaries and societal limitations.

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    Shin-hanga and one man's vision to rejuvenate ukiyo-e traditions

    by Martin Laflamme
  • Art

    Artizon Museum's Jam Session puts photography into perspective

    by John L. Tran
  • Art

    Kazuto Ishimaru and the Salon de Suigeikan: A strange world of masks, leather and drunken giant whales

    by Alex Ehrenreich
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    Contemporary art to the metaverse: Takashi Murakami's poppy trip

  • Art

    Andy Warhol 'Marilyn' sells for $195 million, most ever for U.S. artist

    by James Tarmy and Chris Rovza
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    Kyotographie's 10th edition spotlights female artists in Japan

    by Lance Henderstein

TV

A musical match made in heaven … or was it Harajuku?

TV

A musical match made in heaven … or was it Harajuku?

by Spencer Cohen

Fiddling Leona and JP Mathes teach the art of the deal on the Netflix series "Swap Shop," a reality TV show that sees them antique hunting in Tennessee.

  • TV

    Surprise Netflix hit 'Old Enough!' proves Japanese TV is good enough for overseas

    by Patrick St. Michel
  • TV

    'Tokyo Vice' steps into the capital's criminal underworld

    by James Hadfield
  • TV

    'Pachinko': K-Drama in an American style

    by Mike Hale
  • TV

    Thailand brings 'boys' love' back to Japan with homegrown dramas

    by Donican Lam
  • TV

    ‘The Mating Game’: NHK's 8K nature series reveals all

    by Oscar Boyd
  • TV

    Bob Saget, comic who portrayed Danny Tanner on ‘Full House,’ dies at 65

    by Jesus Jimenez and Alan Yuhas
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