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Danielle Demetriou
Danielle Demetriou is a writer who swapped her native London for Tokyo in 2007. From art and design to business and fashion, she writes about all things Japan-related for international newspapers and magazines.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 27, 2010
Immersed in epic visions of nature
It is as epic as it is arresting. With a gentle whirr, thousands of white feathers are blown into the air in a vast clear space where they proceed to toss and tumble like snowflakes.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 6, 2010
Boltanski's hearts don't skip a beat
There are few places more remote. I wander along an overgrown path humming with birds and lined with rice fields before finding myself in front of a house on a small beach.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 2, 2010
The Royal Ballet pictured in style
A ballerina stands lightly en pointe in a monochrome photograph, feet arched to perfection and a hand stretched toward the sky. Another dancer mid-arabesque raises her back leg gracefully. A third is frozen leaping through the air with legs stretched into a perfect straight line.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 29, 2010
Why cook food when it is better for you raw?
Sixteen years ago, the Boutenkos were a family in crisis. Mother Victoria was overweight and depressed. Her husband, Sergei, had arthritis. Their teenage son was battling diabetes, while their daughter suffered from asthma.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Apr 23, 2010
"Taylor Deupree: Unseen"
NADiff ClosesApril 25
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 26, 2010
The colorful visions of a perpetual tourist
Beneath a hazy moon, a party is in full swing at a mountainside terrace overlooking the endless twinkling lights of a city that may or may not be Los Angeles.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 19, 2010
Motherly love, both romantic and vulgar
A naked mother radiates maternal happiness as she beams at the camera with her peachy-skinned wide-eyed baby clasped to her chest. Nearby, piercing blue eyes and oddly elongated ears frame a face attached to a wooden body with women's breasts and a solitary truncated hand hovering by its side.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 18, 2009
Have fun and play with your food
I slip a red dress over my head. The silhouette is fashionably curved, the fabric luxuriously soft and the hemline festooned with small red bobbles.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Dec 11, 2009
'CONSTELLATION 2'
Yuka Sasahara Gallery
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Oct 29, 2009
Tokyo's rising tide of design
Giant chairs, floating clouds and abstract boxes: forget anything as commercial as wanting to sell a product.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 23, 2009
A detour through the artist's mind
A scarlet fish head, the silhouette of a tree and a burned-out hole surrounded by scribbled thoughts may at first sight appear to inhabit different worlds.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 9, 2009
Kengo Kuma's Nezu Museum: an urban haven
"This is the maximum number of people that should ever come in here," says Kengo Kuma, glancing toward a small group of people murmuring quietly in front of a nearby Buddha statue. "It's much nicer when it's empty."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Aug 21, 2009
Timothy Saccenti: Garden of Unearthly Delights
Diesel Denim Gallery, Tokyo
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 7, 2009
The 'big bang' at Echigo-Tsumari
It is a picture-book perfect shrine. Tiny and tranquil, it is framed by a red gateway at the top of a winding forest path. But there is one surprising intrusion on the scene: a shiny Coca-Cola bench matching the vermilion hue of the shrine sits under its roof.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 24, 2009
La Machine invades Yokohama!
"You know 'e is a crazy man," Fredette, a feisty, flame- haired assistant, warns in a French accent as she hands over a yellow hard hat. "A mad man. Un fou. And very, very busy. You must be quick."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 17, 2009
Darkness at the opera
Say the word "opera," and a string of flamboyant images spring to mind, from vivid stage sets to dramatic divas — unless it's the world of opera as seen through the singular gaze of artist Sophy Rickett.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Apr 17, 2009
"Hiroko Inoue: Inside-Out"
Foil Gallery in Higashi-Kanda
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 27, 2009
Fine art takes over Tokyo for a week
Record bankruptcies around the world. Tumbling shares. Spiraling debt. Soaring unemployment. Escalating homelessness. And? A blossoming art scene.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 16, 2008
Rise of the spas
The world economy appears to be in free fall. Temperatures are plummeting toward zero, too. Work is stacking up perilously on the desk. Christmas celebrations and bonenkai (forget-the-year party) hangovers are setting in. Does this sound familiar?
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 4, 2008
A beautiful cultural blend: African kimono
Wander past a certain kimono store in Aoyama and center stage in the window is a riotous splash of canary- yellow cotton, with bright cubes of grass green and swirls of earthy brown. A tribal red-and-black obi tied high around the waist completes a perfectly styled kimono that on close inspection evokes...
Japan’s 2024 buzzword of the year urges a reevaluation of past norms
Sadao Abe, who played the role of a time-traveling Showa Era teacher transported to present day in a popular TV drama, receives the 2024 buzzword of the year award for the word "futehodo," the nickname of the series.
Princess Aiko, only child of emperor, turns 23
Princess Aiko on Nov. 22 ahead of her 23rd birthday on Sunday at the Imperial Palace
Ishiba questioned on political reform, social issues and the economy
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks in the Lower House in Tokyo on Monday.
Nearly 90% in Japan and China have negative views of other
Chinese people's sentiment toward Japan is believed to be impacted by their use of social media platforms such as Weibo and Douyin, as well as whether they have visited Japan.
Bear that attacked Akita supermarket employee captured
A brown bear in Hokkaido. In the city of Akita, a bear that attacked a supermarket employee over the weekend was captured in a box trap on Monday morning.
Can Japan's scientific community rebound from a Nobel nosedive?
The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo is a popular place to foster curiosity in the natural sciences.
Europe eyes 'boots on the ground' in Ukraine as possible peace deal option
A serviceman with the Ukrainian Army's 24th mechanized brigade fires a machine gun during an exercise, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the country's Donetsk region on Friday.
Seven strangers and an algorithm: Can this new dinner app help you make friends?
Timeleft uses an algorithm to match its users with five or six strangers in an effort to prompt “human connection” over dinner at a restaurant. It determines the attendees with the help of a simple personality quiz available when you sign up for the service. 
Don’t worry, you can still use your Japan health insurance card — for now
A My Number card reader at a pediatric clinic in Tokyo. While the government will stop issuing new health insurance cards on Monday, most people will remain unaffected by the move in the short term as existing health insurance cards can still be used for another year.
The Geisha bean is the leading lady of Tokyo's coffee scene
Discovered in the 1930s, the Geisha coffee plant came to worldwide fame in the early 2000s and now represents some of the best coffee on the planet — Tokyo's top cafes included.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo is a popular place to foster curiosity in the natural sciences.
Can Japan's scientific community rebound from a Nobel nosedive?
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