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JAPAN / Q&A
Nov 17, 2011

What's at stake in upcoming Osaka mayoral poll?

Voters go to the polls Nov. 27 to elect a mayor for the city of Osaka and the prefectural governor. But it's the former that is drawing the most attention, due to the candidacy of ex-Gov. Toru Hashimoto and his plan to abolish the city of Osaka and merge it with prefecture.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 11, 2011

"Chinese Ceramics, Lacquer and Bronzes"

To celebrate the recent donations to it of works from three important art collections, Nezu Museum is holding an exhibition of Chinese ceramics, lacquerware and a bronzeware.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 4, 2011

"Asami Kiyokawa: Bijo Saishu"

Most people only think of drawing, painting and photography as the media for 2-D art works. Asami Kiyokawa, however, has chosen something different to enhance her work: embroidery.
COMMENTARY
Oct 28, 2011

Global crises of democracy

In 2000, at the first U.N. millennium meeting in Tokyo, Gallup presented interesting results of a global public opinion survey. Most people, even in the mature Western democracies, believed their government was failing to represent them — refusing to heed their voices, looking after their own and corporate...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 21, 2011

"Goya: Lights and Shadows. Masterpieces of the Museo del Prado"

One of the most important 19th-century artists of Spain, the Romanticist painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) is considered one of the last Old Masters as well as a pioneer of modern art. He helped develop Romanticism and produced works that became a major influence and inspiration behind...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 21, 2011

"Nakanoshima Collections: Osaka City Museum of Modern Art & The National Museum of Art, Osaka"

Osaka City is in the process of building a new modern art museum — to be unveiled in 2017 — in Nakanoshima 4-chome, the same area as the National Museum of Art, Osaka. The two museums will face each other, giving them the opportunity to organize joint exhibitions and art events.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Oct 21, 2011

Kabaya starts strong as B-Corsairs evolve

With four games in the books, the expansion Yokohama B-Corsairs now have several relevant things that can be discussed in team meetings. A few trends have started to emerge, too, including the solid play of guards Masayuki Kabaya and Kenji Yamada.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 14, 2011

Print show profits to help quake victims

Art fans have the chance to enjoy one of Japan's longest running exhibitions and help out the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake at the same time this weekend, when the College Women's Association of Japan hosts its annual print show at the Tokyo American Club.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 14, 2011

"Toulouse-Lautrec: The Maurice Joyant Collection"

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) suffered a number of congenital health problems that led to the inability of his legs to heal properly after he fractured his thigh bones in his teens. Often mocked for his appearance, he chose to focus on his art and found comfort in the nightlife of Paris — his...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 14, 2011

"Indian Popular Art: Encounter with Colonial Modernity"

Popular art in India — which includes advertising posters, postcards, religious painting prints, painted photographs and more — gives us some insight into the cultural and artistic influences of imagery of India.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Oct 13, 2011

Wonderlands of the artists' making

With a show titled "Ways of Worldmaking," you expect something big and with plenty of diversity — and The National Museum of Art, Osaka, mostly achieves this. Six individuals and three artist groups — all young and up-and-coming — have been brought together and given large, immersive spaces in...
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Oct 13, 2011

When the 'City of Water' was a font of culture

From the Byzantine times in the 9th century, Venice was a strategic trading center straddling Europe and the East. Venetian merchants traded wool and silk textiles for spices, grains and other commodities from Asia, making the city — and the Venetian Republic of which it was the center — one of the...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 7, 2011

"The Path to Tendai Buddhism: In Search of the Eternal Shakyamuni Buddha"

Miho Museum is the Shigaraki venue of a three-museum special set of autumn exhibitions, titled "Omi: Spiritual Home of Kami and Hotoke," featuring portrayals of gods and Buddhist iconography originating in the Omi region (present-day Shiga Prefecture). The two other venues are the Museum of Modern Art,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 7, 2011

Helping Japan with a dance

Take any teenager nearly 10,000 km (6,000 miles) from home on their first-ever overseas trip and you are bound to reap wonder. For 16-year-old French ballerina Sylvie Guillem, who came to Tokyo with the Paris Opera Ballet School in 1981, that wonder grew into 30 years of mutual admiration.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 7, 2011

"Matsuoka Eikyu: Nihon no Miyabi, Yamato-e Fukko no Top Runner"

This year marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of Eikyu Matsuoka (1881-1938), a painter famous in Japan for his lifelong dedication to reviving and modernizing yamato-e, a traditional style of painting that originated in the late Heian Period (794-1192). One of the most famous yamato-e works is the...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 24, 2011

Keynes was not a big 'Keynesian'

What does it mean to be Keynesian? It was the British economist John Maynard Keynes who declared that when, like today, economic growth grinds to a standstill and businesses fail to provide enough jobs, governments have the ability, and the duty, to fill the gap.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 23, 2011

"National Gallery of Art, Washington"

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, boasts a collection of more than 120,000 works, among which one of the highlights is its around 400 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works. Eighty-three Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pieces have been selected from the gallery's collection for this show,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 23, 2011

"Imperial Household Artists, Series III, Sculpture: Koun Takamura & Komei Ishikawa"

Koun Takamura (1852-1934) and Komei Ishikawa (1852-1913), two master sculptors born in the same year, were both appointed as Artists to the Imperial Household when the system started in 1890.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 16, 2011

"Still Life from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Tradition and Innovation"

During the 14th century in northern Europe, the optical realism of still-life painting became popular and it was often used to depict objects of allegorical or symbolic meaning. It was not until much later that artists gradually began to pay more attention to shape, color and motifs, which led to less...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 16, 2011

"Masterpieces of the Kabuki-za Theater Collection"

This year celebrates the 60th anniversary since Tokyo's Kabuki-za, Japan's principal kabuki theater, was rebuilt after being severely damaged during World War II. The theater is now going through a 21st-century architectural makeover and set to reopen in 2013.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 9, 2011

Festival/Tokyo rewrites its script after quake

Chiaki Soma, the program director at Festival/Tokyo (F/T), needed to figure out how to proceed with the country's biggest theater festival following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11. She closed her office for 10 days and asked the staff to carefully consider the meaning of the festival in...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 9, 2011

"Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi Ten"

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Hiraki Ukiyo-e Foundation on Sept. 11, this exhibition at the foundation's UKIYO-e TOKYO museum is exhibiting works from "The 53 Stages of the Tokaido" ("Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi"), Hiroshige Utagawa's well-known series of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints).
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 8, 2011

"Jan & Eva Svankmajer: Films and their Surroundings"

Laforet Museum HarajukuCloses Sept. 19
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 8, 2011

"Nobuyoshi Araki 'Higan' "

Rat Hole GalleryCloses Sept. 25
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 2, 2011

"Bologna Fiera Del Libro Per Ragazzi"

The Bologna Children's Book Fair is held every spring in Bologna, a city of ancient origins in the northern Italy. The fair also hosts a picture-book exhibition for which 2,836 artists from 58 countries submitted works this year. Seventy-six creators from 21 countries were selected for the show, including...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 2, 2011

"Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Sakai Hoitsu's Birth: Sakai Hoitsu and the Edo Rimpa School"

Born into the distinguished family of the feudal lord of the Himeji region of Hyogo Prefecture, Sakai Hoitsu (1761-1828) had the luxury of being able to enjoy haiku poetry and calligraphy from a young age. In his 20s, he started to immerse himself in street culture, such as kyōka (satrical poems) and...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / LIGHT GIST
Aug 30, 2011

Mascots on a mission to explain the mundane

It is often said that the Japanese have a unique attitude towards law. Many explanations have been offered for why this is so, and in what circumstances:
COMMENTARY
Aug 29, 2011

Future of nonviolent uprisings after Gadhafi

"Brother Colonel" Moammar Gadhafi's time is up, but Libya has seen six months of fighting, at least a thousand deaths, and foreign military intervention in support of the rebels. This is not the kind of nonviolent revolution that we have come to expect in the 21st century.
Japan Times
LIFE
Aug 28, 2011

The best of his years . . .

This summer, my translator and I stood in Izumi Matsumoto's home-cum-office in Tokyo, where he had just been searching in vain for any original drawings from "Spring Wonder," which was, 27 years ago, the first manga serial he pitched to leading comics magazine Weekly Shonen Jump.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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