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SETSUKO

CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Dec 4, 2015
Secret ballerinas; remembering Setsuko Hara; CM of the week: Mercedes-Benz
Many Japanese women studied dance when they were very young, and some have gone on to careers in show business and incorporated what they learned into their work. On the two-hour special, "Geinojin ga Honki de Baree" ("Celebrities Do Real Ballet"; TBS, Wed., 7:56 p.m.), 20 female TV personalities who once took ballet lessons — including teenagers and middle aged women — spend 200 days trying to regain some of their skills so that they can audition for a solo turn in a production of "Swan Lake" by ballet master Tetsuya Kumakawa's K Ballet Co.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2015
Mysterious Japanese screen legend Setsuko Hara dies at 95
Legendary actress Setsuko Hara, who starred in "Tokyo Story" and other films by Yasujiro Ozu and other prominent Japanese directors, has died.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 7, 2013
Re-examining Yasujiro Ozu on film
Yasujiro Ozu once had a reputation for making films only other Japanese could understand.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Nov 25, 2013
Lions and dragons of Japan's islands
When I arrived at the workshop of Setsuko Oshiro in August, the sky was a clear blue and the heat like the inside of a kiln, but there were storm clouds gathering, dark thunderheads over the East China Sea.

Longform

When trying to trace your lineage in Japan, the "koseki" is the most important form of document you'll encounter.
Climbing the branches of a Japanese family tree