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Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 15, 2015
Smiling between the lines of ukiyo-e
Some art collectors enjoy the eclectic, picking up art pieces opportunistically — even randomly — usually when they find something at the right price. Others have more streamlined tastes and focus on a theme or genre, building up more consistent collections.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 24, 2015
Caribou explains reasons behind the songs on his 1,000-track playlist on YouTube
The worlds of indie and club music are hardly irreconcilable, either in difference or distance, but it can often be hard to spot crossover success that extends beyond one-off hits or remix packages.
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2014
Kyocera to build 13.4-megawatt floating solar power plant near Tokyo
Japanese photovoltaic cell maker Kyocera Corp. said Monday it will build a 13.4-megawatt floating solar power plant in a joint venture at a dam in Chiba Prefecture.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 13, 2014
Homebuyers in Japan seen at risk on floating-rate loan rush
Homebuyers are piling into floating-rate mortgages, stirring debate over whether they are too complacent as Bank of Japan stimulus revives inflation.
BUSINESS
Aug 13, 2014
Homebuyers in Japan seen at risk amid floating-rate loan rush
Japanese homebuyers are piling into floating-rate mortgages, stirring debate over whether they are too complacent as Bank of Japan stimulus revives inflation.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 6, 2014
Kawasaki commemorates those lost on 3/11
Toro Nagashi, or "lantern floating" is a traditional custom involving the release of candlelit paper lanterns into a river to symbolize the guiding of the souls of the deceased toward peace.
CULTURE / Film
Dec 7, 2013
The Japan Times review of 'Ukigusa (Floating Weeds),' Nov. 26, 1959
'Ukigusa" is the latest film of Yasujiro Ozu, the director whom most Japanese consider "the most Japanese director."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 3, 2013
The 'floating world' that drifted to the West
The main pleasure of any extensive ukiyo-e (woodblock print) exhibition, like the "Floating World" show now on at the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, is the evocation of the unique civilization that underlies this particular slab of global modernity.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Apr 4, 2013
Project tests viability of offshore floating wind turbines
A rare type of floating offshore wind turbine is being tested about 1 km off Kabashima, a 9-sq.-km island with some 110 households in Nagasaki Prefecture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Sep 23, 2012
Adrift from Kyoto's Amanohashidate on Heaven's Floating Bridge
The Japanese have long had a fondness for categorizing impressive features of the world around them into numbered lists. And in this enterprise, trios hold particular fascination. Thus, in addition to the Three Great Festivals and the Three Great Night Views, among well over 100 prestigious triads are the Three Top Ramen Noodle Dishes, the Three Top Karst Topographies and the Three Top Poisonous Creatures.

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Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on