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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 5, 2012

Pet Expo helps Fido look spot on

As Tokyo prepares for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, in Osaka fashion has gone to the dogs.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 4, 2012

"Beppu Contemporary Art Festival 2012: Mixed Bathing World"

Beppu in Oita Prefecture is one of the most prosperous hot-spring areas in Japan. Nonetheless, it has been suffering a depopulation of youths and a decline in tourists. In response, a number of volunteers and NPO organizations have been working on reinvigorating local culture through art projects.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 4, 2012

"The People by Kishin"

Kishin Shinoyama has always been at the forefront of Japan's photography industry. His perceptive insight and carefree disregard of social norms have made him both an admirable pursuer of avant-gardism and a target of conservative criticism. This exhibition is the first major retrospective of Shinoyama's...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 4, 2012

"Taro Shinoda: Homo Sapiens Sapiens"

In 2007, Taro Shinoda started a project titled "Lunar Reflection Transmission Technique," for which he explored the moon via an astronomical telescope. Shinoda focuses on the relationship between us, human beings, and the moon, the only natural satellite of earth, which is also observable from anywhere...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 4, 2012

"The Heart of the Chef's Hospitality: Tankumakita's Cuisine and Serving Ware"

Japan is well known for its hospitality to foreign visitors, a custom known as omotenashi. This practice has its roots in the Japanese belief of placing harmony with others above that of personal ego. One aspect of this is the way Japanese chefs strive to perfect their dishes for their guests, and Kyoto...
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COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Oct 2, 2012

Second homes may be cheap, but they are often in disrepair

Atami The ad said the property was 2 km from Ajiro Station on the Ito Line, but it was difficult to tell how far we were traveling in the agent's car. Most of the trip was up a steep, winding road into the hills above Atami on the Izu Peninsula, an area developed in the 1970s by the Tokyu Corporation...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / BACKSTREET STORIES
Sep 30, 2012

Casting around for the past on Fish-basket Slope

Hoping to find traces of the fishing village that was Edo (present-day Tokyo) before the first Tokugawa Shogun chose the site for his new political capital in the early 1600s, I head to Gyoranzaka (Fish-basket Slope) in the city's central Mita district.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Sep 30, 2012

Time seems to slow as Joei-ji Garden comes alive

"The whole countryside was full of snakes sunning themselves along the roads and swimming in the ditches and newly flooded rice-fields. ... Out in Sesshu's old garden behind the temple, the pond was starred with tiny twinkling water-lilies." Such was, in part, how Glenn W. Shaw described the rural outskirts...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 28, 2012

Summer goes out with a bang

Summer is the season of fireworks in Japan, and, fittingly, it ends with a bang.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 28, 2012

Yokohama garden goes for seasonal ambience during five-day moon-viewing event

Cool evening breezes are a sign that autumn is here. For five days beginning Friday, Sankeien, a Japanese garden in Yokohama is encouraging visitors to engage in a seasonal pastime: tsukimi (moon-viewing).
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Sep 27, 2012

Bicqlo – Bic Camera meets Uniqlo – is here!

Uniqlo and Bic Camera cross-pollinate and make a baby.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 27, 2012

"Kurigami Kazumi: Portrait of a Moment"

Kazumi Kurigami is a leading Japanese commercial photographer and cinematographer, perhaps best known for his work on numerous TV commercials for various major companies, such as Nissan, Sony and Suntory. In 2009, he also debuted as a film director with "Gelatin Silver, Love."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 27, 2012

"On the Agenda of the Arts 2012: In the Air"

Tokyo Wonder Site aims to foster worldwide cultural exchange from its Tokyo bases in Hongo, Shibuya and Aoyama. One of the institution's longest-running projects is "On the Agenda of the Arts," which invites artists and curators from around the world, hosts exhibitions, and organizes roundtable discussions...
Reader Mail
Sep 27, 2012

More hazards for Okinawans

In his Sept. 23 letter, "Osprey will reduce the impact," Robert D. Eldridge emphasizes that Okinawa's burden of hosting the bulk of U.S. bases in Japan will be eased because of the medium-lift, tilt-rotor MV-22 "Osprey" aircraft's functional supremacy compared with the conventional CH-46 helicopter....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 27, 2012

Kichizaemon X: Sound of Darkness and Light of Silence

Since his involvement in the establishment of Dumb Type, a collective on Kyoto-based artists, Shiro Takatani has spearheaded the group's works, playing a vital role in design and aesthetics. Kichizaemon Raku, on the other hand, is the latest heir apparent to the prestigious Raku family, whose traditional...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 27, 2012

"Hideo Nagai Solo Exhibition: Painkiller ..."

In 2001, Hideo Nagai surprised the world with a giant sculpture of a half-naked wrestler who was stretched out like a plank between two walls and appeared to be writhing in pain at his gravity-defying feat. The scale and visual impact of the sculpture was an example of what later became his main motif,...
Reader Mail
Sep 23, 2012

Osprey will reduce the impact

The Sept. 14 editorial "Osprey adds to the burden" argues that the introduction of the new medium-lift U.S. Marine Corps aircraft to replace the aging CH-46 helicopter "will further increase the host burden" on the residents of Okinawa." If anything, the introduction of the MV-22, which has been in service...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 23, 2012

Niigata doesn't appear ready for pro baseball franchise

Two years ago, I wrote a column about how I thought the city of Niigata appeared ready to support a Japanese baseball franchise team, should there ever be another expansion (as in the case of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in 2004) or if an existing Central or Pacific League club decided to move. Now,...
BUSINESS
Sep 22, 2012

J-Power starts work on Ehime wind farm

Electric Power Development Co., the utility known as J-Power, said Friday it began work on a 20 megawatt wind power station in western Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Sep 20, 2012

Today's J-blip: Gatsby Moving Rubber hair wax

Gatsby's new ad is certainly eye-catching, if not hair-raising.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 20, 2012

"The '70s in Japan: 1968-1982"

The 1970s was not only a time of political activism and rebellion against the establishment, but one that saw Japan looking to the future with the introduction of new technology at the Osaka Expo. By the late '70s, there was also a renewed interest among magazine publishers to focus on youth culture....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 20, 2012

'It' girl Rola welcomes Jepsen to Japan

It's a meeting of the memes. Inside one of Shibuya's biggest clubs, Japan's happy-go-luckiest talent perches eagerly and wide-eyed on her high stool awaiting the arrival of Canada's most cheerful pop star.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 20, 2012

"Dialogues with Contemporary Art"

Contemporary art is often considered cerebral and complex, leaving some museum-goers frustrated or baffled at trying to decipher what they see as random symbols. The Setagaya Art Museum aims to battle that perceived inaccessibility of modern art by encouraging visitors to not only learn how to uncover...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 20, 2012

"Paintings by Poets"

Despite a lack of artistic training, there have been many writers, particularly poets, who have been able to use their critical thinking, aesthetic sense and imagination to create surprisingly ambitious and sensitive paintings. Visual art provided such writers with another medium that could embody their...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 20, 2012

"The Eye of the Machine: Camera and Lens"

Inspired by advances in technology, photographers in the 1920s and '30s experimented to find the best use of their new high-tech cameras and lenses.
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Sep 18, 2012

Kaohame

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COMMUNITY / Issues
Sep 15, 2012

U.S. Agent Orange activist brings message of solidarity to Okinawa

Residents of Okinawa Island have recently been confronted with mounting evidence that their land used to be a major storage site for the toxic U.S. defoliant Agent Orange.
EDITORIALS
Sep 14, 2012

Posturing over the Senkakus

The government on Tuesday moved forward to nationalize three of the five islets that compose the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. It signed a ¥2.05 billion contract with the owner of the three islets — Uotsuri, Kita Kojima and Minami Kojima — and decided to use ¥2.05 billion out of the fiscal...

Longform

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