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CULTURE / Art
Mar 29, 2012

'How to Look at Modern & Contemporary Art'

Taking advantage of its long history and extensive collection of works, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art's latest exhibition has been curated to guide visitors on how to enjoy art.
CULTURE / Art
Mar 29, 2012

'How to Look at Modern & Contemporary Art'

Taking advantage of its long history and extensive collection of works, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art's latest exhibition has been curated to guide visitors on how to enjoy art.
Japan Times
LIFE
Mar 25, 2012

Tracing the trees in a long national love affair

When five shell-pink buds open together on a particular tree in the precincts of Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo, the city explodes with the joy of spring. The cherry-blossom season has officially begun!
CULTURE / Books
Mar 25, 2012

Plight of women and the young in modern Japan

Demographic Change and Inequality in Japan, edited by Sawako Shirahase. Trans Pacific Press, 2011, 239 pp., $34.95 (hardcover) This stimulating collection of nine essays examines the implications of demographic trends for inequality in Japan. The contributors are sociologists who elucidate how changes...
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COMMUNITY
Mar 24, 2012

Emmert shares beauty, power of noh dramas with a wider audience

Richard Emmert has endeavored for decades to share the beauty and power of noh with English-speaking audiences and performers through "English noh."
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 23, 2012

Local diversions during the Okinawa fest

A fun-filled week is upon Okinawa as the fourth annual Okinawa International Movie Festival descends on the prefecture's main island. Like last year, the festival's concept is centered around "Laugh & Peace," in celebration of the sense of courage and joy for life that comedy and film can instill....
CULTURE / Art
Mar 22, 2012

"One Piece Exhibition: Original Art × Movies × Experience One Piece"

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the popular "Weekly Shonen Jump" manga "One Piece", the Mori Art Center Gallery is collaborating with its illustrator and writer Eiichiro Oda for a special exhibition that is sure to please fans.
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CULTURE / Art
Mar 22, 2012

"One Piece Exhibition: Original Art × Movies × Experience One Piece"

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the popular "Weekly Shonen Jump" manga "One Piece", the Mori Art Center Gallery is collaborating with its illustrator and writer Eiichiro Oda for a special exhibition that is sure to please fans.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Mar 18, 2012

Ryunosuke Akutagawa in focus

Though he died by his own hand at the age of 35, novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa's accomplishments were such that, even after so brief a writing career, Japan's most prestigious literary accolade — the Akutagawa Prize — now bears his name.
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BUSINESS
Mar 17, 2012

Uniqlo opens top flagship in Ginza

Fast Retailing Co. launched its biggest Uniqlo flagship store yet Friday, aiming for it to rake in ¥10 billion a year in sales and reinforce the company's global competitiveness.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 16, 2012

A modern take on American theater classic

SIS Company's new production of "The Glass Menagerie" by the U.S. playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83) looks like a marriage made in theatrical heaven between one of Williams' masterpieces and an impressive cast.
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JAPAN
Mar 15, 2012

Paragliding fanatic chronicles Iwaki's postdisaster shoreline

Footage of the Tohoku region's tsunami-ravaged coast has been broadcast constantly over the past year, allowing viewers a closeup view of obliterated communities.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2012

SDF to join U.S.-Filipino military drill

Kyodo The Self-Defense Forces will participate for the first time in joint annual military exercises involving U.S. and Filipino forces in the Philippines from the end of this month to April, Japanese and Filipino diplomatic sources said Saturday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Feb 28, 2012

A stylish support crew for the home

TRE chic and very sturdy
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JAPAN / Media
Feb 26, 2012

AV stars out to play despite hard times

Since her steamy debut in late 2008, adult-video (AV) actress Kokomi Naruse has starred in hundreds of features, many of which find her playing a young girl desired by older men.
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CULTURE / Art
Feb 23, 2012

"The Tower"

To celebrate this spring's opening of the Tokyo Sky Tree, the metropolis' new landmark, the Edo-Tokyo Museum is presenting an exhibition that explores the history of three great towers.
CULTURE / Art
Feb 23, 2012

"The Tower"

To celebrate this spring's opening of the Tokyo Sky Tree, the metropolis' new landmark, the Edo-Tokyo Museum is presenting an exhibition that explores the history of three great towers.
CULTURE / Art
Feb 23, 2012

"The 250th Anniversary of Hokusai's Birth: Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts"

The Honolulu Academy of Arts boasts a collection of some 10,000 ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) , around 5,400 of which were donated by the American author James A. Michener.
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CULTURE / Art
Feb 23, 2012

"The 250th Anniversary of Hokusai's Birth: Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts"

The Honolulu Academy of Arts boasts a collection of some 10,000 ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) , around 5,400 of which were donated by the American author James A. Michener.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Feb 20, 2012

Clean poverty, clean living and love on a shoestring

Okane wa doko ni itteshimattanoka (お金はどこに行ってしまったのか, Where has all the money gone?). Until a few years back, the tone among Japanese business pundits used to go like this — a little humorous and slightly hopeful, almost as if we were all playing kakurenbo (かくれんぼ,...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WEEK 3
Feb 19, 2012

Avant-garde shamaness takes a poetic journey to the Californian suburbs

In a YouTube clip from February 2011, Hiromi Ito begins a reading of an excerpt from her narrative poem "I Am Anjuhimeko (Watashi wa Anjuhimeko de aru)" at the Museum of Modern Aomori Literature by banging the palm of her hand loudly and repeatedly on the desk in front of her. She sits down, squares...
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LIFE / Travel
Feb 19, 2012

A voyage of discovery from Tokyo to Naha

On the Autumnal Equinox of 2011 I finished teaching a monthlong summer intensive course at a university in Tokyo, and had six days before I had to be back in my new hometown of Naha, Okinawa, for a meeting at my new university in the nearby town of Nishihara. Since I was in no particular hurry to return,...
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CULTURE / Art
Feb 16, 2012

The photographic cartographer

Tomoki Imai remembers well the turning point in his life when he decided to become a professional photographer. Already an aspiring film director at the Tokyo University of the Arts, the Hiroshima-native was turned onto the raw and trigger-happy cityscape and portrait snapshots of self-styled photo "genius"...
CULTURE / Art
Feb 16, 2012

The photographic cartographer

Tomoki Imai remembers well the turning point in his life when he decided to become a professional photographer. Already an aspiring film director at the Tokyo University of the Arts, the Hiroshima-native was turned onto the raw and trigger-happy cityscape and portrait snapshots of self-styled photo "genius"...
CULTURE / Art
Feb 16, 2012

"Anatomia Metamorphosis: Luboš Plný & Anna Zemánková — Works from the abcd Collection"

Based on a 2009 exhibition in Montreuil, France, held by the nonprofit organization art brut connaissance & diffusion (abcd), this exhibition features more than 100 works by Luboš Plný and Anna Zemankova, two important Czech art-brut artists. "Art brut" is a term that refers to works created by artists...

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami