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CULTURE / Art
Feb 9, 2012

"Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions: How Physical"

From Feb. 10, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography will be, once again, hosting the annual "Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 9, 2012

"World of Kato Kunio"

Animator Kunio Kato won the 2009 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film with "La Maison en Petits Cubes" ("The House of Small Cubes"), a heartwarming tale of an aged widower who, living in a house flooded by rising sea levels, finds himself reliving past experiences as he scuba dives through his home. This...
CULTURE / Art
Feb 9, 2012

"World of Kato Kunio"

Animator Kunio Kato won the 2009 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film with "La Maison en Petits Cubes" ("The House of Small Cubes"), a heartwarming tale of an aged widower who, living in a house flooded by rising sea levels, finds himself reliving past experiences as he scuba dives through his home. This...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 9, 2012

"Okumura Akio and Works"

This show looks into the 40-year career of Akio Okumura, the graphic designer behind the typography of some of Japan's most famous logos. His familiar work includes the cursive font for the confectioner Ezaki Glico, the curved letters of Rohto Pharmaceutical and recently, his work for the Center for...
CULTURE / Art
Feb 9, 2012

"Okumura Akio and Works"

This show looks into the 40-year career of Akio Okumura, the graphic designer behind the typography of some of Japan's most famous logos. His familiar work includes the cursive font for the confectioner Ezaki Glico, the curved letters of Rohto Pharmaceutical and recently, his work for the Center for...
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Feb 4, 2012

Lone Brazilian school in Nagoya to shut down

Nagoya's only Brazilian school, Colegio Brasil Japao, is closing down after running into financial difficulties due to a falling number of students.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 2, 2012

"Wonder Seeds 2012"

Tokyo Wonder Site's aim is to nurture and support up-and-coming artists through it's workshops and cultural exchange programs.
CULTURE / Art
Feb 2, 2012

"Wonder Seeds 2012"

Tokyo Wonder Site's aim is to nurture and support up-and-coming artists through it's workshops and cultural exchange programs.
CULTURE / Music
Feb 2, 2012

Sekaitekina Band "Sekaitekina Band"

Sekaitekina Band are pretty optimistic. Their name basically translates as "global band," and while it may sound a bit lame at first, you can't fault them for aiming high.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 1, 2012

Hamilton: U.K. has lost sight of the public benefits of higher education

Professor Andrew Hamilton became the first vice chancellor of Oxford never to have been educated at the university when he took the job in 2009. He is English, educated at Exeter University and Cambridge, but for the previous 28 years had lived in America, the last 13 of them at Yale University, as professor...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Jan 31, 2012

Ideas of note

Note pads that snap into action We revisit Postalco for yet another piece of stationery we've fallen in love with. This time it's the brand's new environmentally friendly Snap Pad.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jan 31, 2012

A winter's tale: cold homes, poor lives in wealthy Japan

Question: What am I doing outside my home at 6 a.m. with a gas can, a pump, and stalactites under my nose?
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Jan 29, 2012

Naha gardens within a garden

Amere 10-minute walk across busy Route 58 from the polyglot sidewalks, hotels and souvenir shops of Kokusai-dori, the faintly grubby, undulating Chinese boundary walls of a green enclosure announce the presence of a garden known as Fukushu-en.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jan 28, 2012

Kyoto-based Italian physicist blazes trail for foreign academics

Professor Giuseppe Pezzotti, 51, a materials scientist at Kyoto Institute of Technology, effortlessly switches from a newspaper interview in English to discuss research collaboration with a colleague in fluent Japanese. Even sartorially, he straddles East and West: While his torso is clad in button-down...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 27, 2012

'Late Bloomers'

Is it just me or are women much happier than they used to be, up there on the digital silver screen? Compared with, say, five years ago, female characters seem to be doing well financially, getting the most out of love relationships and firmly ensconced in loving family circles. They always seem to get...
CULTURE / Art
Jan 26, 2012

"Hikari: Expression of Light in Works of Art"

Light — sunlight, moonlight, starlight, even artificial indoor lighting — is often one of the most important elements of an artist's work. Since the energy-saving concerns raised by the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant disaster, our general awareness and appreciation of light has been also heightened....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 26, 2012

"Hikari: Expression of Light in Works of Art"

Light — sunlight, moonlight, starlight, even artificial indoor lighting — is often one of the most important elements of an artist's work. Since the energy-saving concerns raised by the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant disaster, our general awareness and appreciation of light has been also heightened....
CULTURE / Art
Jan 26, 2012

"Muneyoshi Yanagi"

Muneyoshi Yanagi (1889-1961), better known as Soetsu Yanagi, was the founder of the Japanese folk craft mingei movement, which promoted the art of everyday objects created by anonymous or ordinary craftspeople.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 26, 2012

"Muneyoshi Yanagi"

Muneyoshi Yanagi (1889-1961), better known as Soetsu Yanagi, was the founder of the Japanese folk craft mingei movement, which promoted the art of everyday objects created by anonymous or ordinary craftspeople.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 26, 2012

Witnessing China's new cultural revolution

Chinese culture is on the long, slow rebound. Back in 1989, the Chinese government was shocked by the sudden appearance in Tiananmen Square of an icon of Western culture. This was a ten-meter-tall statue created by protesting students that was modeled on the Statue of Liberty, and called the "Goddess...
CULTURE / Art
Jan 26, 2012

Witnessing China's new cultural revolution

Chinese culture is on the long, slow rebound. Back in 1989, the Chinese government was shocked by the sudden appearance in Tiananmen Square of an icon of Western culture. This was a ten-meter-tall statue created by protesting students that was modeled on the Statue of Liberty, and called the "Goddess...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 26, 2012

Ethnic Minority "Startin' ”

If you've been near Shibuya Station in Tokyo at night in the past 12 months, you may well have encountered three young guys playing up a storm to passers-by, many of whom have stopped to listen, cheer and/or dance. This trio goes by the name of Ethnic Minority, and is led by saxophonist Hiroyuki Yokota....
COMMENTARY
Jan 25, 2012

A snapshot of freedom of expression in America

Shawn Nee, 35, works in television but hopes to publish a book of photographs. Shane Quentin, 31, repairs bicycles but enjoys photographing industrial scenes at night. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department probably wishes both would find other hobbies. Herewith a story of today's inevitable friction...
COMMENTARY
Jan 23, 2012

Europe's potion is now its poison with China inheriting the benefits

Today's lecture is on the sorry state of that dismal science called economics.
CULTURE / Books
Jan 22, 2012

'Art Seto' bringing islands back to life

INSULAR INSIGHT: Where Art and Architecture Conspire with Nature, edited by Lars Muller and Akiko Miki. Lars Muller, 2011, 453 pp., $70 (hardback) Islands lend themselves to introspection, rebalancing, a yearning for independence and equipoise. They may not be the solution to all our anxieties, but their...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2012

Sales tax shouldn't be the priority: Takenaka

Before hiking the 5 percent consumption tax, the government should first cut trillions of yen in public spending and adopt measures to spur economic growth, former economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka says.

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