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Mizuho Aoki
Mizuho Aoki is a staff writer covering local news, including the current Tokyo gubernatorial race, education and aviation-related stories. She graduated from Hitotsubashi Universty with a degree in social science.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 12, 2009
Soda takes a pop at taboos
Kazuhiro Soda made his name with his first documentary film "Campaign," which follows the director's former classmate Kazuhiko Yamauchi as he campaigns for a city-council seat in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. The film was screened at the Berlin Film Festival in 2007, broadcast on TV in around 200 countries...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
May 15, 2009
Duplicity
Duplicity
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
May 15, 2009
Duplicity
Director: Tony Gilroy
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
May 1, 2009
"Oppai Volley" ("Breast Volleyball")
Director: Eiichiro Hasumi
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Apr 17, 2009
24 City
Director: Jia Zhangke
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 20, 2009
Set to Cruise control in Tokyo
Tom Cuise was in Japan last week with his wife, Katie Holmes, and their 2-year-old daughter, Suri, to promote his new film, "Valkyrie." As always, the star did the best he could to please his Japanese fans, spending over two hours outside a theater in Roppongi shaking hands and signing autographs; and...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Mar 20, 2009
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Director: Patrick Tatopoulos
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 6, 2009
New theater keeps it short and sweet
History is being made on the second floor of a new apartment block in Yokohama's waterfront Minato Mirai district where, since February 2008, the Brillia Short Shorts Theater has been Japan's first and only cinema dedicated to films under 25 minutes long. The one-screen venue is now showing this year's...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 20, 2009
Bent Hamer nails another odd story
N orwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer is a generous man. At the end of our interview, while waiting for the next journalist to arrive, Hamer began putting together media kits that were piled up on a desk to be sorted out by the staff of his film's promotion company. Told not to bother, he kept at it with a...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Dec 12, 2008
D-War
Director: Shim Hyung Rae
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Dec 5, 2008
Death Race
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Nov 21, 2008
Yogisha X no Kenshin
Director: Hiroshi Nishitani
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 21, 2008
Documentaries frame Berlin Philharmonic's past, present
Two documentaries about the famed Berlin Philharmonic are being showcased in a Japan roadshow that started last Saturday at Eurospace in Shibuya, Tokyo. Both films look into the state of this venerated ensemble, but during very different periods in its 126-year history.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Nov 14, 2008
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Director: Chris Carter
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Oct 24, 2008
Halloween
Halloween
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 24, 2008
Film fest offers the Himalayas
The stunning snow-capped mountains of the Himalayas are certainly a joy to behold — or, for some, to climb. For those not up to the cost or exertion of such an endeavor, the Himalaya Film Festival from Nov. 1 to 3 offers an experience in armchair mountaineering.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Oct 17, 2008
Bordertown
Director: Gregory Nava
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Oct 10, 2008
"Ikigami"
"Ikigami"
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Sep 26, 2008
"Wanted"
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Sep 19, 2008
Gou-Gou Datte Neko de Aru
Director: Isshin Inudo
Ishiba delays meeting with Trump, citing legal restrictions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba waves upon arrival for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, in Callao, Peru, on Friday.
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.
Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan's anti-prostitution law
While financial misfortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have driven some women to work the streets, others simply want more money to spend — or want to pay off their debts — at host clubs.
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.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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