Tag - godzilla

 
 

GODZILLA

LIFE
Jan 11, 2014
The return of Godzilla, the king of kaiju
'Godzilla' first appeared in cinemas across the country in November 1954 but its story line was heavily influenced by an incident eight months earlier at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
LIFE
Jan 11, 2014
Everything you ever wanted to know about Godzilla but were afraid to ask
LIFE
Jan 11, 2014
King of the monsters has universal appeal
Kouhei Nomura published a glossary titled 'The Godzilla Encyclopedia' in 2004 after six months of dedicated research. He delivers his verdict on why the king of the monsters is so popular worldwide.
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Jun 12, 2013
Preserving a classic Japanese art form: tokusatsu magic
Our monster is scaly, spiky, reptilian — a cross between a dinosaur and an irradiated insect that shrieks like an angry bird. Our hero is lean, faintly muscular in a rubbery skintight suit with inscrutable praying-mantis eyes. They face one another, stomping left to right like sumo wrestlers, posing...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 30, 2013
Awakening the echoes — loud ones
I sit at a table, drinking with an old friend with whom I share a lot, and not just bar tabs. We have both gulped away most of our adult lives in Japan.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight