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JAPAN / Society
Nov 23, 2017

'Boys' for rent in Tokyo: Sex, lies and vulnerable young lives

Ignorance about STDs, exploitation and camaraderie found in the sex-worker bars of Shinjuku's Ni-chome gay district.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Nov 21, 2017

Shoma Uno gets job done at Internationaux de France

Shoma Uno qualified for the Grand Prix Final for the third straight season with an uneven performance at the Internationaux de France in Grenoble on Saturday. Uno uncharacteristically fell in both the short program and free skate on the way to finishing second behind Javier Fernandez.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 16, 2017

Steven Soderbergh looks to get 'Lucky' with a new distribution model for films

He's been away for such a short time, you may not have noticed Steven Soderbergh had even stopped making movies. In 2013, the director — who won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his 1989 debut, "Sex, Lies, and Videotape," when he was just 26 years old — announced his retirement from filmmaking, citing...
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BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 10, 2017

Are libraries to blame for Japan's slump in bunko paperback book sales?

Kiyondo Matsui, the president of the publishing house Bungei Shunju, spoke at this year's All-Japan Library Conference, which took place in Tokyo on Oct. 12 and 13. During his talk, Matsui asked the assembled professionals to no longer acquire bunko editions of books for lending in their libraries.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 7, 2017

'Decoration Never Dies, Anyway'

Nov. 18-Feb. 25
CULTURE / Art
Oct 31, 2017

What makes a National Treasure?

Together, Japan's National Treasures provide a cacophonous ode to the nation and its heritage for its historical, cultural, geographical and stylistic dissonances. Yet, this is the first time in 41 years that 210 such works (or sets) have been displayed en masse.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 31, 2017

'The Etcher: Keiko Kiyohara Retrospective'

Nov. 11-Dec.14
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 24, 2017

'Diego Rivera and His Contemporaries'

Oct. 21-Dec. 10
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Oct 22, 2017

Anime tourism invites overseas fans to join festivities

Yuwaku Onsen is a 1,300-year-old hot-springs resort tucked between mountains along the Asano River south of Kanazawa. Ten mid-size traditional inns line its slim main street, leading to a small hillside shrine and a man-made pond.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 17, 2017

Koganecho: An old site in a new light

Koganecho Bazaar 2017's “Double Facade: Multiple Ways to Encounter the Other” show is a bit of a mess.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Oct 16, 2017

British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize in literature

The Swedish Academy is awarding this year's Nobel Prize in literature to Nagasaki-born British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Taking the Lead
Oct 16, 2017

Ippudo ramen chain credits its global success to localized tastes

Toshiyuki Kiyomiya likes to compare ramen to a carefully arranged universe in a bowl.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 12, 2017

Wanton desire proves to be timeless and borderless in Japanese version of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'

The route that has brought Richard Twyman to Tokyo to direct an all-Japanese cast in a play based on an 18th-century French novel has taken many twists and turns.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 10, 2017

'Painters of Passion: Adventures in Color by Kandinsky, Rouault, and Their Contemporaries'

Oct. 17-Dec. 20
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JAPAN
Oct 6, 2017

Russian diplomat's photo of children blowing bubbles takes top prize in Tokyo competition

A photograph by Andrey Kuzhabekov, second secretary at the Russian Embassy in Tokyo, features a group of children playing with soap bubbles at Yoyogi Park in the city. The image evokes a longing for simpler times in our past and the natural joys that have become increasingly rare in today's complicated...
CULTURE / Art
Oct 3, 2017

'Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave'

Oct. 6-Nov. 19
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 25, 2017

Learn Japanese as you travel the world

Japanese guidebooks are more than just vocabulary lessons. They provide subtle insight into Japanese grammar as well.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 24, 2017

Parched nations tap cloud seeding

Threading through clouds, often with shaky turbulence and occasional thunder, 71-year-old pilot Gary Walker burns the flares on his plane's wings, releasing chemicals as he flies.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Sep 23, 2017

'Devils in Daylight' and 'The Maids': The literary sleuthing of Junichiro Tanizaki

Question: Is it really the case that for a large part of the 20th century Japan enjoyed a golden age of literature? Or is this just misty-eyed nostalgia?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2017

Hokkaido 'workations' breathe fresh air into telecommuting

With a view of Mount Shari in the distance and an ocean breeze wafting in from the Sea of Okhotsk, working in this coastal community in northeastern Hokkaido is certainly an escape from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Sep 16, 2017

'Bushido and the Art of Living': Lessons from Japan's 'way of the warrior'

What we learn by the end of this urbanely written, empirically tested book is that Bushido is not merely a set of strategies for combat but a system of thinking eminently suited to preparing us for life and all its concealed hazards.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 12, 2017

'Kano Motonobu: All Under Heaven Bowed to His Brush'

Sept. 16-Nov. 5
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2017

What Twitter taught me about (nuclear) war with North Korea

Can words alone mitigate the obvious gravity of nuclear holocaust?
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Sep 3, 2017

It's all about the convenience

Always in the fast lane? Here are some neat ideas for those who don't like to fuss around.
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
Sep 3, 2017

How Japan got new contract law it neither wants nor needs

One possible explanation for the inexplicable change in contract law: It is a giant experiment driven by academic hubris and bureaucratic ambition.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / The critics who shaped modern Japan
Sep 2, 2017

Hideo Kobayashi: Spearheading the age of the professional critic

In the autumn of 1956, Japan's most renowned literary critic, the 54-year-old Hideo Kobayashi, engaged in taidan ( a "conversation" to be published in a magazine) with 31-year-old rising literary star Yukio Mishima.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 22, 2017

Take a journey into the art of darkness

Terror and tragedy are widely considered entirely disagreeable in principle. But audiences have for millennia taken pleasure in the pain of narrative spectacles in the arts. Fear is popular because it arouses curiosity in addition to revulsion. So, too, does the assemblage of Western works from the 16th...
CULTURE / Art
Aug 22, 2017

'Uemura Shoen and Quintessential Bijinga, Paintings of Beautiful Women'

Aug. 29-Oct. 22

Longform

Japan's growing ranks of centenarians are redefining what it means to live in a super-aging society.
What comes after 100?