School for Takarazuka Revue trainees abolishes harassment-like rules
School officials said although they still plan to maintain discipline, they have decided to scrap the rules in consideration of growing awareness over harassment issues.
A 23-year-old university student was arrested Thursday on suspicion of killing two women with arrows fired from a crossbow at his home in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, police said. Suspect Hideaki Nozu, who was arrested at the scene, is believed to have deliberately shot his mother ...
JSA to rethink ring ban on women but confirms they can enter in emergencies
The Japan Sumo Association is re-examining its ban after women who were treating a stricken mayor in the ring for stroke were told to leave.
Amid uproar over gender discrimination in sumo, female mayor barred from speaking from the ring
Request to give speech from inside a dohyō was denied Friday as the sport’s rules on gender gain international spotlight.
Japan's famed Takarazuka Revue adds a touch of Taiwan for next tour there
The all-women Takarazuka Revue musical troupe says its Star Troupe will unveil a production inspired by a Taiwanese puppet show during its third tour of the island nation later this year. Tomotsugu Ogawa, president of the Takarazuka Revue Company, told a news conference Friday in ...
Takarazuka becomes fourth municipality in Japan to recognize same-sex unions
The city of Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on Wednesday began issuing certificates recognizing same-sex partnerships as equivalent to marriage, the fourth local government in Japan to do so. The city of Naha in Okinawa Prefecture is expected to follow suit in July. The Takarazuka Municipal Government is ...
The double delight of 'Grand Hotel'
It started life in 1929 as "Menschen im Hotel" ("People in the Hotel"), the first novel by Austrian writer Vicki Baum, but its storyline — set in the Grand Hotel in Berlin in 1928 — first became widely known through 1932's Oscar-winning film "Grand ...
The city of Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, says it will join two Tokyo wards in issuing certificates recognizing same-sex partnership as being equivalent to marriage.
LDP politician says Takarazuka LGBT initiative will turn city into 'center of HIV infections'
An assembly member in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, said the municipal government's efforts to support sexual minorities will encourage such people to move there and make the city "the center of HIV infections." The remark Wednesday by Shigeta Okochi, 44, of the Liberal Democratic Party caused ...
As Geki×Cine raises its game, Amami goes into battle for her man
Geki×Cine isn't really film and it isn't theater, but rather an intriguing blend of the two. With geki meaning "stage," and "cine" representing film, the finished productions are shown on the big screen. So are they stage-to-screen adaptations? Most certainly not. More accurately, they ...
The all-woman Takarazuka Revue will stage a series of performances in Taiwan in August, the troupe's second appearance before audiences there. The show will run from Aug. 8 to 16 at the National Theater in Taipei. Takarazuka Revue Chairman Koichi Kobayashi, whose grandfather founded the company ...
Ichizo Kobayashi (1873-1957) was the founder of the West Japan Hankyu train line and department store in Osaka's central Umeda district. Arguably his most significant artistic contribution was the establishment of the Takarazuka Music School in 1913, which combined a modern education with the ...
