The 'King' returns and theaters look to Russia for 2019
Whether it's regular theater that gets you going these days — or you're skipping along more to musicals — as 2019's curtains rise, variety will be the spice of live stages this coming year. In the realm of musicals, American composer Dave Malloy's 2012 "electropop ...
Left-field visions of Kyoto's rising artists
The Museum of Kyoto's latest exhibition presents a promising cast of 45 emerging local artists working in miscellaneous mediums from lacquer to small-scale mixed-media installations.
'The Kinship of Secrets': Heartbreak and family separation during the Korean War
Eugenia Kim's second novel, "The Kinship of Secrets," is a measuredly moving story of a girl losing and finding a home, the ways in which families grow into units and immigrants into citizens.
A second helping of horror for 'Suspiria'
Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino cites categorization as one of his enemies, and the sudden fierceness in his eyes shows he's not kidding. "I feel uncomfortable putting ideas and thoughts into boxes," Guadagnino, 47, tells The Japan Times. "As soon as you categorize something, it starts to ...
Hirokazu Kore-eda's 'Shoplifters' and Mamoru Hosoda's 'Mirai' among 2019 Academy Award nominations
'Chiwawa': An enigma wrapped in a riddle
'The Nikaidos' Fall': What's in a name? Everything.
As the heavyweights return, will 2019 be a smash year for anime?
'Kono Michi': A biopic heavy on sentimentality
'His Lost Name': A lack of more than just a name
Funk on Da Table: The band bringing New Orleans funk to Japan
For over two decades, June Yamagishi and John "Papa" Gros have been bringing New Orleans and Japan closer together through music. Funk on Da Table, their latest band, will bring hard-hitting grooves back to Japan in February. The international group, comprised of Japanese and American ...
Perfume goes back to dance basics ahead of Coachella debut
Johnny Hates Jazz: Returning to Japan for happier times
Sho player Ko Ishikawa pushes the boundaries of gagaku with free improvisation
Music in 2018: Saying goodbye to Heisei with 'U.S.A.'
Bridges built by the power of K-pop and J-pop
Study of Leonardo's first landscape finds he had second thoughts, added later details
The first-ever scientific study of the oldest known drawing by Leonardo da Vinci has found that he added details to an earlier sketch of a countryside landscape, said the Uffizi Galleries, whose collections include the fragile work. The Galleries said the 1473 "Landscape Drawing for ...
'Toshiko Okanoue, Photo Collage: The Miracle of Silence'
'Commemorating the Donation by Kiyomi Kirimura: Hina Dolls and Gosho Dolls of the Iwasaki Family'
'Yokoo Tadanori: Grand Theatre of Live Painting — Something's Happening at the Museum Today'
'Boars Galore': The Year of the Boar finally gets it day
'Leiko Ikemura Our Planet: Earth & Stars'
'Crime and Punishment': The crime you'll be glad you were a witness to
In a scoop for Tokyo, Theatre Cocoon in Shibuya Ward is set to mark the new year with the world premiere of a new production of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" in an original production by English director Phillip Breen with a ...
Comedian Akira Ohashi 100% reveals his naked ambition
2018 was the year in Japan that saw the stage sing, while contemporary drama barely made a squeak
While ballet reigned supreme, a range of dance delighted fans in 2018
On the road to new experiences, post-SMAP, with Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
'An Enemy of the People': The not-so-silent majority speaks out again
Tokyo Festival looks to throw open some doors with fringe elements
A friend says that actress Kaye Ballard, co-star of the TV series "The Mothers-in-Law," has died. She was 93. The friend, Marguerite Gordon, says Ballard died Monday night at her home in Rancho Mirage, California. Ballard had been fighting kidney cancer, Gordon said Tuesday. A boisterous comedian ...
Trump's Russian pop star pal Emin Agalarov scrubs U.S. tour over probes and fear of detention
Producer Andrew Vajna of 'Rambo' and 'Evita' fame dies in Budapest at 74
CBS chief axed over sex scandal fights for $120 million severance
Bangladesh bans film about 2016 Islamist cafe siege fatal to 22, cites damage to reputation
Takako Arai's poetry is a relentless 'dance of language'
Takako Arai's poems unravel complicated lives in an ever-widening mesh of humanity, her style retaining an energy and optimism despite her visceral, often disturbing subject matter.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, the undisputed master of warrior prints
'Friendship for Grown-Ups' evokes the ambiguity of everyday life
'Small Buildings of Kyoto': A spotlight on Kyoto's overlooked quotidian
'Oyako': Capturing the intimacy of parent-child bonds
Singaporean publisher mines Asia's wealth of short stories
Mark the new year with a commitment to books on Japan
Marie Kondo's new TV series cleans up
Marie Kondo is the type of person you wouldn't initially expect lots of people to go crazy over. In the cleaning consultant and best-selling author's new Netflix show, "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo," she simply lays out the basics of her "KonMari" method of ...
TV in 2018: Progressive voices and the enduring charm of ‘Terrace House’
Anime in 2018 saw serious cash but no surprise hits
A blond Swedish landscape artist flexes for NHK — remember his name ... 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'
