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KABUKI ZA

Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 27, 2013
Kichiemon Nakamura II : For the love of 'Chushingura'
As December draws near, the streets are decorated with Christmas ornaments and in Japan, concerts of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony are held all over the nation. In addition to these Western-inspired traditions, there is a made-in-Japan December tradition that has been held since the 18th century and is still going strong today: re-tellings of the true story of "Chushingura."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 3, 2013
Ebizo rethinks kabuki's strategy
In the glitzy and gossipy world of Japanese celebrity, hardly a week goes by without revelations being made about — or made by — Ichikawa Ebizo XI.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jul 22, 2013
Police stonewalling over death of U.S. teen in Shinjuku prolongs family's ordeal
The family of Scott Kang had hoped that the release the autopsy report would shed some light on the U.S. teenager's death in Shinjuku in 2010 and bring them nearer to obtaining closure. Instead, it has reopened old wounds and raised fresh questions about the original police investigation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 10, 2013
The human kindness of a foxy woman
"Ashiya Doman Ouchi Kagami" ("Mirror of the Imperial Court during the time of Ashiya Doman") depicts the rivalry between two Heian Period characters Abe no Yasuna and Ashiya Doman. It was created as a bunraku by Takeda Izumo in Osaka in October 1734, but it was staged as a kabuki play in Kyoto in February the following year.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 30, 2013
Grandma, 95, still making confetti for Kanamaruza's spring kabuki
Takuko Yamamoto, 95, has helped liven up spring kabuki performances in the town of Kotohira, Kagawa Prefecture, for nearly 30 years by making boxes of confetti to be thrown over the heads of performers during pre-opening parades every year.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 2, 2013
Refurbished Kabukiza theater reopens in Tokyo's Ginza district
Tokyo's Kabukiza theater, the spiritual home of Japan's 410-year-old performing art, reopened Tuesday after a three-year hiatus following extensive renovation work.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 29, 2013
Revamped Kabukiza theater aims to charm a new audience
The Kabukiza is back — with big ambitions and aspirations to make the nation's classical theatrical entertainment more attractive to a 21st-century audience.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 28, 2013
Actors parade for Kabukiza rebirth
Young kabuki actors and their veteran peers paraded Wednesday in the Ginza district in central Tokyo to celebrate the reopening of the landmark Kabuki-za theater next week.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 21, 2013
A lovesick nun, magic sandals and a vengeful ghost
"Sumidagawa Hana no Goshozome" ("The Sumida River Adorned with Cherry Blossoms") by Tsuruya Namboku IV (1755-1829), now showing at the National Theater of Japan, was written to be a blockbuster.
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 21, 2013
Where cherry blossoms fall: Love, betrayal and tragedy at the Sumida River
The play begins with Matsuwaka (Nakamura Hayato, 19) of the Kyoto-based Yoshida family. He is disguised as Yorikuni of the Otomo family, who is the fiance to princess Sakurahime (Nakamura Kotaro, 19) of the Iruma family. Sakurahime is also the younger sister of Matsukawa's own betrothed, Hanako. (Fusuke IX).
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Mar 19, 2013
Ginza stage set for Kabukiza's fifth coming
The venerable Kabukiza Theater in Tokyo's Ginza district reopens April 2 after three years of renovations and the addition of a 29-floor attached office tower.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2013
New Kabukiza theater, tower completed in Tokyo
A ceremony was held Tuesday to celebrate the completion of the new Kabukiza theater and an adjacent office building called Kabukiza Tower in the Higashiginza district of central Tokyo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Feb 5, 2013
Kabuki patriarch Danjuro dies at 66
Leading kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro XII, popular for his grand and expansive style of acting, dies of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 28, 2012
Mourners bid farewell to Kabuki master Kanzaburo
Mourners gathered Thursday at a Tokyo temple to bid farewell to Nakamura Kanzaburo, the late kabuki master whose talent as an actor and producer helped broaden the popularity of the traditional Japanese performing art.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Dec 29, 2011
Kabuki returns to its Asakusa home for special New Year's performances
As kabuki fans will already know, for more than 30 years, the Kokaido (public hall) in Asakusa has celebrated the Tokyo district's history as a thriving entertainment area by reviving the Edo Period (1603-1867) tradition of New Year's special kabuki performances. These shows have also become a great opportunity for younger actors to take on lead roles and prove themselves as rising kabuki stars.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Dec 28, 2010
Kabuki going strong, 400 years on
The media frenzy over kabuki star Ichikawa Ebizo's drunken midnight brawl in Tokyo last month may be a testament to how, 400 years after its birth, the genre remains a highly popular form of entertainment integral to Japanese culture.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 20, 2010
Scandal economics: Shochiku rides out Ebizo brawl all the way to the bank
Shochiku could have lost a chunk of change from the Ebizo fall-out, but renowned onnagata Bando Tamasaburo saves the day.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 23, 2008
Kabuki mecca's days numbered
The Kabukiza Theatre, a Tokyo landmark and the mecca of the traditional performance art, will soon vanish to be replaced by a new office-theater complex despite pleas from architects to preserve the building.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2006
Young actors keep kabuki flourishing
Shinosuke Nakamura and his friend, Kyoju Nakamura, walk into a cafe near the Kabukiza Theater in Tokyo in jeans and stylish jackets, just like any other young men in their 20s. But when they return to work, they are serious kabuki actors dressed in kimono and performing plays that date back as far as four centuries.
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The National Diet building in Tokyo
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Japan’s record-low children population weighs on growth
The number of children 14 years old or younger fell for the 43rd straight year to around 14.01 million as of April 1.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
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