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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.
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
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
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
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,...
Japan Times
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...
Japan Times
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,...
Japan Times
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...
Japan Times
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...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Feb 5, 2012

Yakushima free-stay takes some fearful turns

"Oh, if you want to pee you can just do it out the front door," my host Yuki says as he gives me an introductory tour of the house and points out the powder room — merely a pit with a long drop and an unconnected toilet pedestal covering the hole.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 3, 2012

Ice sculptures, snow slides at Hokkaido fest

The City of Sapporo will be hosting the 63rd annual Snow Festival this month. The event is considered a "must see" for tourists and about 2 million people visited the festival last year.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Jan 31, 2012

Culture ensnares Czech Japanophile

Petr Holy, who over the past two decades has spent a considerable amount of his time learning the Japanese language and culture, is now in return trying to spread the culture of his home country, the Czech Republic, throughout Japan.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jan 31, 2012

Tsutaya's newest media center suits silver market to a T

To many Japanese, the name "Tsutaya" will bring to mind one very clear image: neon lights, blue-and-yellow signage, bestselling J-pop albums and late-night DVD rentals.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Trump announces new tariff rate on Japan — and extension of deadline to Aug. 1
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a trade letter sent by the White House to Japan during a news conference at the White House in Washington on Monday.
China’s housing crisis is worse than it seems
Residential buildings under construction in Shanghai in July 2022. The Chinese government risks long-term decline by repeating Japan’s policy mistakes in handling its real estate and demographic crises.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
Japan stands its ground after Trump letter delivers 25% U.S. tariff shock
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at Morristown Airport, New Jersey, on Sunday. Trump on Monday sent letters to 12 countries notifying them of new "reciprocal" tariff rates effective Aug. 1.
From the Abes to the Ohtanis: How siblings shape athletic development
Olympic judoka Uta Abe (second from left) and Hifumi Abe (second from right) with their brother Yuichiro (center) and their parents. “I’m always consciously trying to be a good older brother,” Yuichiro said.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Scams involving police impersonation surge
A video by the National Police Agency warns about fake scams.
Lawson to let visitors use larger parking lots as paid car campsites
A Lawson convenience store in Yachiyo, Chiba Prefecture. A new service from the company comes amid the rise in inbound tourists, making hotels and inns harder to book and more expensive.
The future is bright inside the visionary mind of architect Sou Fujimoto
The exhibition of Fujimoto’s architecture surveys his career to date, as well as looks ahead as shown in his proposal of a future floating city designed in collaboration with data scientist Hiroaki Miyata.

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