The queen of kawaii: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu reflects on her reign
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's trip to the Museum of Death in Hollywood proved to be a 2018 highlight for the 25-year-old J-pop star. "I thought it would be about murder and crime, but it was actually about everything related to death," she tells The Japan Times. ...
Roy Clark, country guitar virtuoso, 'Hee Haw' star, dead at 85
Country star Roy Clark, the guitar virtuoso and singer who headlined the cornpone TV show "Hee Haw" for nearly a quarter century and was known for such hits as "Yesterday When I was Young" and "Honeymoon Feeling," has died. He was 85. Publicist Jeremy Westby ...
Throngs of fans packed Tokyo Dome on Tuesday and Wednesday to watch K-pop group BTS perform songs from across its five-year career. The crowd cheered, bought merchandise and the two days offered the seven-member group some respite from a week of scandal. Things kicked off ...
'Hard-Core': Of robots and socially marginalized men
Live-action manga adaptations — from weepy dramas about teenage love to goofy comedies set in fantasy worlds — usually reflect real life only at its extremes, whether it's the melodramatic or the idiotic. Then there is "Hard-Core Heisei Hell's Bros.," a cult manga about two ...
Deaf filmmaker Emilio Insolera flexes his superpowers with 'Sign Gene'
The Japanese films that made a splash at TIFF
Tasuku Emoto talks about directing, acting in English and sounding like Tom Cruise
'Lying to Mom': A film about suicide that isn't as heavy as you'd expect
'The Gun': A blast of stylish nihilism
Beverly Caimen: 'Music is universal and goes beyond languages'
When Beverly Caimen moved from the Philippines to Japan in 2016 she was a relative unknown who could barely speak the language. Several months later, however, an unexpected encounter with actor Shun Oguri drastically changed her life. That meeting led to him introducing Beverly, as ...
Partners in grime: The Butterz label thanks Japan with a birthday bash in Tokyo
SuperDeluxe provided a safe space for experimentation that Tokyo will miss
Machina and Shohei Fujimoto pair up for a multimedia performance at Mutek
Kate Sikora carves out a space in Tokyo's indie scene
Amid Japan's multitude of music festivals, Frue is worth celebrating
Connecting Rubens and the Baroque
Suffering saints and sultry nudes — Peter Paul Rubens has them all. The Flemish painter (1577-1640) took on a variety of subject matter, and also had a hand in pushing predominant tastes from the Renaissance's revival of classical ideas to the more elaborate experiments ...
'Hokusai and the Gourmets of Great Edo'
'Challenges From the Other Side 1960s-80s'
'Power of Ceramics: Modernism in Finnish Applied Arts'
Waking up to Asia's growing role in art
'Architecture x Photography: A Light Existing Only Here'
'Toeko Tatsuno: On Papers — A Retrospective 1969-2012'
Tokyo Festival looks to throw open some doors with fringe elements
If the inclusion of Festival/Tokyo in Tokyo Festival's diverse program of performing arts is any indication, theater events in Tokyo have been evolving over the past decade or so. Festival/Tokyo was set up by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in 2009 to showcase the city's cutting-edge ...
The experiment continues on Kyoto's stages
'Hurricane — The Life of Tian Han' tells the story of the father of contemporary Chinese theater
Golden oldies: A Saitama theater festival for elderly actors welcomes seniors from around the world
Akinori Nakagawa captures Frankie Valli's voice in 'Jersey Boys'
'Swimming With Sharks': A horrible boss is truly universal
Japan-born writer Yoko Tawada wins prestigious U.S. literature award for 'Kentoshi'
The English version of "Kentoshi," or "The Emissary," a work by Japanese writer Yoko Tawada, has won the U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature. The National Book Awards are one of the most distinguished literature prizes in the United States. The winners of this ...
When it came to racism, the pen was Stan Lee's superpower
NHK unveils lineup for year-end music show — without K-pop group BTS
Michael Jackson's 'Bad' tour leather jacket sells for $298,000 at auction, three times asking price
Manga artist draws on history for tales of politically powerful women
A feminist manga-style artist says she plans to use characters based on an Egyptian pharaoh and a Chinese empress to bring more female empowerment to the male-dominated world of comic books. Queenie Chan is working on a series of nonfictional biographies aimed at children titled ...
A journey to hell with Osamu Dazai, Japan's ultimate bad boy novelist
Rational analysis and mystic poetry combine in Kenzaburo Oe's 'Rouse Up O Young Men'
'Tinian and the Bomb': Historical details shed light on one island's overlooked role in World War II
From vulnerability to violence, Yukiko Motoya enchants with ‘The Lonesome Bodybuilder’
'The Old Bamboo-Hewer's Story': Deeply ingrained in the Japanese cultural imagination
'Newcomer': Cop pounds the pavement in Tokyo shitamachi detective mystery
A blond Swedish landscape artist flexes for NHK — remember his name ... Tatsumasa Murasame
Who's that hunk of blond beefcake crunching his abs on NHK's workout program "Minna de Kinniku Taiso"? When the five-minute nightly exercise show launched for a four-episode run this August and attracted a huge cult following, social media users wanted to know the answer. Tatsumasa Murasame ...
Twitter speaks: That joke isn't funny anymore
Anpanman: Is the children's superhero the best thing since sliced bread?
The small screen needs the small mercies of 'Terrace House'
Rainy season is a great time to binge-watch anime
'The Bachelor Japan' promises more drama in its second season
Yuko Takeuchi steps into an iconic role on 'Miss Sherlock' with elementary ease
