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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.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.

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