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LIFE / Travel
Apr 16, 2016

Minimalist family 'camping' in the foothills of Mount Fuji

The birds are singing, the wind is rustling in the forest and sunlight is filtering through the treetops. So far, so idyllic — until my 3-year-old releases a primal bird-scattering shriek as she thrusts an axe into a piece of wood.
CULTURE / Music
Apr 13, 2016

Toyomu reimagines Kanye West's 'Life of Pablo' in a creatively fun way

Toyomu — "Imagining 'The Life Of Pablo'" (Self-released)
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Apr 9, 2016

Exploring Tabaruzaka's idyllic but forgotten samurai battleground

The gray spring clouds have given way to a gentle drizzle by the time I pull my car into a spacious parking lot bordering the Tabaruzaka battlefield. It's fitting weather, considering the massive battle that took place here in 1877 in this rural corner north of Kumamoto city was fought in similar conditions....
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Apr 9, 2016

New places to shop and an all-inclusive way to approach fashion

Diesel adds to the family
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 6, 2016

'Lowlife Love': The shady love of the film industry

According to Eiren (Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan), 581 Japanese films were released domestically last year, many of which were low-budget productions shown in small numbers of theaters. Beneath these films "officially" recognized by Eiren is a substratum of straight-to-DVD fare. And...
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 2, 2016

U.S. may deploy many more special forces to Syria, officials say

The U.S. administration is considering a plan to greatly increase the number of American special operations forces deployed to Syria as it looks to accelerate recent gains against the Islamic State group, U.S. officials told Reuters.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 30, 2016

U.S. Supreme Court 4-4 split by default upholds public-sector worker collective bargaining fees

Public sector unions triumphed before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday when the justices preserved a vital source of cash for organized labor, splitting 4-4 on a conservative challenge that had seemed destined for success until Justice Antonin Scalia's death last month.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 29, 2016

'Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey'

April 2-May 15
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 29, 2016

'Utagawa Kunisada: Japanese Lifestyle and Fashion'

April 1-24
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 26, 2016

Designer Jotaro Saito seeks to free the kimono from the confines of tradition

Jotaro Saito has been showcasing his kimono brand at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo since 2006, almost a decade before the eyebrow-raising appearance of X Japan frontman Yoshiki Hayashi's Yoshikimono brand at the event last October.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Mar 26, 2016

Andrea Pompilio: 'Keep wearing fashion the way you want to'

Name: Andrea PompilioAge: 42
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 24, 2016

Pop star Carly Rae Jepsen really, really, really likes Japan

Carly Rae Jepsen has a major crush on Japan. Proof of this came last summer when she released her latest album, "Emotion" (rendered "E• MO• TION"), in this country a whole two months before anywhere else in the world. That kind of exclusive isn't common for an album as anticipated as "Emotion"...
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2016

Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford dies after bout with rare cancer at 46

Rob Ford, who catapulted into the international spotlight after admitting he smoked crack cocaine while mayor of Toronto, has died. He was 46.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 21, 2016

Lessons in history and bureaucracy lurk within Japan's geographical layer cake

Although in English we say Japan has 47 prefectures, Japanese uses four terms to express the same concept. And that's just for starters.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Mar 20, 2016

Playwright brings voices of America's enslaved to the Tokyo stage

Follow-up show to an upcoming Huck Finn musical grapples with how to strike a balance between relating the true horror of slavery and telling the whole story.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Mar 18, 2016

Abramovich's wealth not enough for Chelsea now

When you have grown up in the Communist regime of the former Soviet Union, started your business career importing rubber ducks and becoming the 12th-richest person in Russia thanks to owning an oil company, then being accused of "failing to demonstrate even a minimum amount of manners and education"...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 15, 2016

'Kuniyoshi & Kunisada: From the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston'

Ukiyo-e prints were once the equivalent of today's TV shows and magazines. During the Edo Period (1603- 1868), they often illustrated kabuki theater stars and portrayed the latest fashion trends, even at times serving as cosmetics catalogs or tourist guidebooks.
CULTURE / Art
Mar 15, 2016

'Modern Beauty: Art & Fashion in France'

French fashion and cosmetics are the subjects of the Pola Art Foundation's 20th-anniversary commemorative exhibition, which focuses on 19th- and 20th-century paintings from the museum's own collection.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 15, 2016

Why the world must live with a nuclear North Korea

It is inconceivable that Kim Jong Un would give up the weapon that places his nation in the exclusive nuclear club, and sanctions won't force him to do so.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Mar 12, 2016

Mercedes-Benz fashion week vs. homemade couture

Fashion Week gets peachy
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 9, 2016

Trump's luxury hotels in Indonesia could face backlash over his anti-Muslim remarks

Few villagers living near a half-built golf course in Indonesia's West Java province know the name Donald Trump, and fewer still are aware that one of his firms will be managing a six-star hotel and luxury resort in their backyard.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 5, 2016

Japan's counterterrorism efforts falling short

The Foreign Ministry invited ridicule toward the end of 2015 after it advertised job openings for part-time counterterrorism analysts. While the expansion of the exploited precariat of non-regular workers to nearly 40 percent of the workforce is lamentable in itself, who would have thought some of them...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / OBJECT-ORIENTED
Mar 4, 2016

Slippery history of an English dish in Tokyo

There is a 19th-century English roasting dish that has lived in the Mingeikan (The Japan Folk Crafts Museum) since this venerable institution opened its doors to the public in 1936. How this piece of slipware (pottery decorated with a mixture of clay and mineral, known as "slip") got there is something...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 2, 2016

'The Big Short' explains the 2008 financial meltdown with strippers, guns and shouting

When I was in junior high school, my English teacher walked into the classroom one day, placed a pencil on his desk and pointed at it, saying, "All right, give me at least a page about this before the bell rings — and it had better be interesting." We thought he was nuts, but the lesson was a valuable...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 1, 2016

The dyeing art of Japan's traditional everyday kimono

Weaver and dyer Fukumi Shimura's (b.1924) inherited an interest in craft from her mother, Toyo Ono, who made inroads through the early 20th-century mingei (folk crafts) movement led by philosopher Muneyoshi Yanagi. Introduced to the lacquer artistan Tatsuaki Kuroda in 1956, Shimura began to hone her...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Feb 27, 2016

Sewing stitches of creativity in the streets of Kuramae

I'm knocking about Taito Ward's Kuramae area one chilly February morning, visiting an artisan friend, when he mentions a brand new chocolate shop has opened nearby. My ears perk up. Any good? "People are lining up," he says. I dash off to check it out, because it sounds like news. Never mind that I'm...
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 25, 2016

Dodos were not so dumb after all

The dodo is an extinct flightless bird whose name has become synonymous with stupidity. But it turns out that the dodo was no birdbrain, but instead a reasonably brainy bird.

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.