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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Feb 5, 2006
Fashionista with attitude
Raised on the mean streets of Brooklyn's Brownsville district, Gene Krell is a self-proclaimed tough guy who cites as one of his heroes a little-known but highly colorful "Dadaist professional boxer" called Arthur Cravan.
Japan Times
Features
Jan 22, 2006
Bosses where they want to be
Born and raised in Yokohama, Nalin Advani, 40, never tires of extolling the virtues of his home town.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jan 22, 2006
Yokohama: model city for the nation?
'Change Japan -- from Yokohama."
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jan 17, 2006
Puma McQueen, Garcia Marquez Gauche, Paul Smith Jeans, High Tech at Porsche Design . . .
Foot fetish
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Jan 15, 2006
Go shop where it's Christmas every day of the year
As memories of festive fun fade and the world returns to its regular routine, spare a thought for the man behind the all-year-round Christmas shop in Takanawa, near JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Dec 20, 2005
Undercover's Zamiang, Billionaire Boys Club vs. The Ice Cream Store, Youth Dew . . .
Undercover art adventure
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / COUNTER CULTURE
Dec 16, 2005
Another jewel in the Cartier crown
Venerated as the royalty of jewelers and the jewelers of royalty, Cartier is by far the largest brand of its kind in the world. With its illustrious history and client list including countless kings, queens and princes, it is little wonder that the brand's double C logo and distinctive red packaging...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 1, 2005
The reign of Vivienne
From being prosecuted under Britain's obscenity laws for her risque punk fashions to twirling pantyless after receiving an honor from the Queen whose image she once defaced with safety pins, Vivienne Westwood has always had a habit of causing controversy.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / COUNTER CULTURE
Nov 18, 2005
Trying very hard to be trendy
Building a brand spanking new store from the foundations up is usually the preserve of European luxury brands, but down in Harajuku, a huge new concrete monolith called Tokyo Hipsters Club is an exception to the rule.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Nov 15, 2005
Marie-Helene de Taillac, Side by Side, Viliue cosmetics, Youth Records
Staff writer A gem of an idea
Japan Times
Features / JAPAN FASHION WEEK IN TOKYO 2005
Nov 13, 2005
A stitch in time?
After 20 years of quiesence, bickering and squandered potential, Japan's fashionistas may finally have begun to get their act together.
Japan Times
Features / JAPAN FASHION WEEK IN TOKYO 2005
Nov 13, 2005
Catwalk caperings
In the major fashion capitals, only the bravest of designers dare to push the envelope of a show beyond the conventional parade of models marching with their pouts and haughty glares along a catwalk. In Tokyo, though, while the clothes themselves may not match up to those gracing European runways, the...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 10, 2005
Tokion talks Tokyo
Uber-cool magazine Tokion has been investigating the cutting edge of creative subcultures for almost 10 years. Having started as a Japanese/English bilingual culture magazine in 1996, it now has separate editions in each language and a cult following on both sides of the Pacific.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 18, 2005
e.m.'s The Message, Lift Position, Blackpain wristwatches, Soe in Naka-Meguro . . .
Message in a boutique
Features / WEEK 3
Oct 16, 2005
CAMERA GEEKS TAKE AIM
"Lean forward a little!" Snap-snap-snap! "Give me a bit more cleavage -- and smile -- lovely!" Snap-snap-snap! It's my first ever piece of undercover reporting, and I am in a brightly lit studio photographing a 19-year-old girl in a skimpy bikini. It might feel erotic, if I wasn't surrounded by 14 camera...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / COUNTER CULTURE
Oct 14, 2005
Trendy Naka-Meguro is on the Bals
It used to be that Japanese consumers tended not to spend a great deal on their homes. Over the last decade or so, however, that has changed, and firms like Bals Corporation have proved extremely successful at selling the notion of home improvement to Japan.
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 20, 2005
Fendi furs and furnishings, Humans by Mike Mills, dark Baccarat, Vera Wang perfumes . . .
F is for flamboyant Ostentatious interior offerings at the refitted salon of Fendi Omotesando
Japan Times
Features
Sep 18, 2005
In skeptical quest of a boom
"Why don't you write about the kimono boom?" they said, citing anecdotal evidence suggesting that the traditional gown of Japan was making a comeback. So, with several people at The Japan Times claiming they'd seen "a lot" of people wearing them recently, off I set to investigate.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / COUNTER CULTURE
Sep 9, 2005
Fashion turf war gains pace in Harajuku
It's a dog-eat-dog world down in Harajuku, where fickle fashion consumers abandon the old for the new as a matter of course and finding a successful formula for retail business success is often a case of trial and error.
Japan Times
Features / WEEK 3
Aug 21, 2005
End of an era in Shibuya style
Where did all the gyaru (trashy girls) go? With their carroty tans, shoveled-on makeup and bleached hair, the kogaru (high gals), ganguro (black faces) and yamamba (ogresses) were a style phenomenon the likes of which may never be seen again.
Japan's elderly population grows to record 36.25 million
The proportion of people aged 65 and over has risen since the 1950s and is expected to hit 34.8% by 2040, when the second baby boomers (born 1971-1974) will join that group.
'Shogun' becomes first non-English-language winner of best drama Emmy
Japanese actress Anna Sawai, winner of the outstanding lead actress in a drama series award for "Shogun," and Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, winner of the outstanding lead actor in a drama series award for the show, pose in the press room during the 76th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Japan jumps to No. 2, from sixth place, in Best Countries index
Pedestrians cross an intersection in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Japan has experienced a postpandemic travel boom, with tourists pouring back in after restrictions closed the country’s borders to travelers.
South Korea is facing deepfake porn crisis
Activists hold up symbolic eye masks during a protest against deepfake porn in Seoul on Aug. 30.
Second assassination attempt on Trump is latest jolt in chaotic campaign
U.S. Secret Service and Homeland Security agents check a former home of a Ryan Routh, a suspect in an alleged assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump, in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Sunday.
‘Shogun’ and the painstaking art of ‘getting it right’
Hiroyuki Sanada and the cast and crew of "Shogun" accept the award for best drama series at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California.
Japan’s schools battle to keep kids cool, with or without AC
Students sit under a misting system during recess at Hikarigaoka Haru no Kaze Elementary School in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 6.
Chris Broad's new bar puts cocktails first, YouTube second
A self-proclaimed lover of great cocktails, YouTuber Chris Broad says his new Shibuya watering hole is more a place to get yourself a solid drink than it is anything related to his social media career.
In LDP presidential poll, three kingmakers hold all the cards
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo in January as former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (left) looks on.
How China’s dominance of solar and batteries is impacting Japan’s energy transition
Solar panels and wind turbines at a power plant in Hami in China's Xinjiang region. The U.S. and other countries have described China’s actions against Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region, a key cog in the cleantech supply chain, as a genocidal campaign aimed at erasing an entire culture.

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