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Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 13, 2008

Making modern Japan

The suspension of disbelief required by kabuki is massive, making the possibility of a play failing to express its intended meanings always imminent. Rather than show you reality, kabuki tries to convey its most important messages in abstract and stylized portrayals of emotions, events and people —...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / WALKING THE WARDS
Mar 2, 2007

Shinjuku's split personality

In Shinjuku, the first challenge is getting out of the station. Said to be the world's busiest; traversed by approximately 3 million commuters a day, Shinjuku has been a Japan Railways stop since 1885. The Chuo, Keio and Odakyu train lines as well as subway stops joined later, and the depot morphed into...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 22, 2003

Cynic's view of the sex and the city

One of kabuki's most prolific playwrights, Tsuruya Nanboku, produced 120 dramas in the last 25 years of his life. This month, the Kabukiza, in Ginza, stages just two of them, a pair of remarkable sewamono (realistic plays) titled "Kamikakete Sango Taisetsu (A Pledge of Love to Sango)" and "Osome Hisamatsu...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ARCHIPELA-GO
Mar 23, 2003

Some culture with your coffee?

KANAZAWA, Ishikawa Pref. -- As orderly creatures, Japanese generally have a fondness for numbers and happily assimilate the world in neat numerical packages. Of these, the triad has always beguiled. Japan has its Three Most Beautiful Landscapes, its Three Imperial Regalia, its Three Plants of Good Fortune...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 16, 2001

Keen to breathe life into 'o-shodo' beyond Kyoto

Anyone who considers calligraphy a quietly restrained form of expression should see Michiko Isoda in action. She sits on a "zabuton" cushion, loads a brush with ink and, with a sure but delicate hand, raises it vertically above the paper on her desk. She stills her body, concentrates her breathing, then...
CULTURE / Music
Mar 20, 2001

Gion's coolest geiko carves out her own funky groove

She's small, she's cute, she's lively and at 14 she used to do Deep Purple covers fronting her brother's rock band.
COMMUNITY
Sep 23, 1999

A woman on the narrow road

One might not imagine that Lesley Downer -- author of books on Basho's travels, Japan's richest family and now geisha -- started out in the culinary arena.
Japan Times
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CULTURE SMASH
Nov 5, 2021

‘Blade Runner: Black Lotus’ reinvents neo-noir nods to Japan

The new anime series expands upon the dystopian world of Ridley Scott's 1982 live-action film, 'Black Runner.'
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 28, 2020

Performing arts thrown lifelines in Japan as virus puts damper on entertainment

The support ranges from funding online streaming events as alternatives to live performances to producing television programing that features local artists.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Oct 28, 2019

Tourists in Kyoto informed of manners via push notifications

A new app strives to inform overseas visitors to Kyoto of a number of social norms such as don't take pictures of the geisha when they're working.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 5, 2016

Kuniyoshi and Kunisada: When great minds think a little differently

When Japan opened up to the Western world in the 19th century, popular artistic tastes were dominated by two great woodblock print artists, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) and Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864). Contemporaries, keen rivals and both members of the Utagawa School, the pair had the inventiveness...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2015

Kyoto pushes for wealthy Western tourists, but luxury accommodation in short supply

Kyoto has become a top tourist destination for well-heeled Westerners as the former capital's popularity continues to rise.
Reader Mail
Aug 13, 2014

Casting actresses in ethnic roles

In no way do I mean to criticize Philip Brasor's Aug. 10 Media Mix column, "Critics get frank when it comes to Godzilla"; however, I have never quite understood the derision given to the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha" over the casting of Chinese actresses in three leading roles.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 14, 2014

Kyoto to rent out old Meiji Era town house

The Kyoto Municipal Government has announced that a traditional wooden "kyo-machiya" town house in the Gion Shinbashi area — a traditional teahouse in the city's entertainment district — will be made available to private-sector business operators to rent.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Feb 8, 2014

Snow Country

Winter, when mornings are crisp, puddles frozen and the promise of snow floats in the air; it's the perfect season to crack open "Snow Country" and let its well-known opening line — "The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country" — transport you into Yasunari Kawabata's poetic tale...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Jul 6, 2013

Yoko Narahashi: From Hollywood to Hirohito

From "Empire of the Sun" to "The Last Samurai," and from "Memoirs of a Geisha" to "Babel" — when Hollywood film directors have turned their cameras to the Land of the Rising Sun, there is one person they have insisted on having by their side: Yoko Narahashi, a casting agent, producer, sometimes...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / LIGHT GIST
Sep 27, 2011

No-nos for Noda: Japan's top 10 most useless PMs

On Sept. 2, Yoshihiko Noda was appointed the 95th prime minister of Japan, the sixth man (and they have all been men) to hold the job in five years. To mark this occasion and offer lessons to the new Democratic Party of Japan chief on how not to lead the country, the Community Page asked 10 writers to...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Aug 21, 2009

Chinzan-so Italian festival

The Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so will hold a monthlong "La Festa Italiana" of Italian cuisine, art and fashion, as an official event of "Italia in Giappone 2009," the government promotion supported by the Embassy of Italy in Tokyo and the Italian State Tourist Board.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 26, 2009

Kafu's Tokyo musings

"Bats were already out, and children were already chasing them. Near at hand there was a clanging of streetcars, while in the distance the horns of boats would give forth long blasts and fade away, to be followed by samisens in unison from the second floor of the (geisha house) Kamesei. . . . Two newly...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Apr 3, 2009

Mandarin Oriental 'Azuma Odori'

From May 29 to June 1, The Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo, will offer an "MO Azuma Odori" accommodation package, which combines a one-night stay for two in a Deluxe Room or a Premium Grand Room and two tickets for the 85th Azuma Odori, the famous annual geisha performance at Shinbashi Enbujo Theater in Ginza,...
CULTURE / Books
Apr 13, 2008

Hailing the sensual night crawler

EAST WIND MELTS THE ICE: A Memoir through the Seasons, by Liza Dalby. University of California Press, 2007, 346 pp., $24.95 (cloth) "Earthworms twist" — "Prunella flourishes" — "Load up fertilizers" — "Moss glows green." What are these?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 13, 2007

'What is Hollywood anyway?'

Ken Watanabe's latest film opens with an image of a polar bear resurfacing into the brilliant spring sunlight after months living underground. It's tempting to see the scene as a metaphor for a career that has alternated between stretches of intense, highly acclaimed work and long periods of hibernation....
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2007

Kyoto Zen temple offers hands-on experience to woo foreign visitors

A Buddhist temple is offering a one-of-a-kind experience to foreign visitors this summer in an effort to promote tourism and encourage repeat visits to Kyoto.
CULTURE / Books
Jun 4, 2006

Pensive view of a city's declining identity

KYOTO: A Cultural and Literary History, by John Dougill. Signal Books, 2006, 242 pp., 2,500 yen (paper). "Everyone knew," the wartime narrator of Hisako Matsubara's Kyoto novel "Cranes at Dusk" relates, "there was not a single Japanese city of over a million people that hadn't already been bombed." But...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Sep 18, 2005

Sweet Mysteries of the Orient

THE ASIAN MYSTIQUE, by Sheridan Prasso. Public Affairs Books, 437 pp., 2005, $27.95, 2,850 yen (cloth). Apparently, there are still Western men who believe that the East is an obliging seductress, mass producing an endless line of voluptuous women, whose laconic sexual pliancy is only exceeded by their...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jul 20, 2002

Kyoto's unique guide gives you tour to remember

It's unfortunate that I can't join one of Johnnie Hillwalker's world famous walks. His tours -- Walk in Kyoto, Talk in English -- are scheduled come rain or shine on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (excluding national holidays). I am in the city for the weekend.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Apr 22, 2001

Big novels get the small-screen treatment

Jiro Asada won Japan's prestigious Naoki Prize for literature in 1997 for his novel "Poppoya," which was later made into a hit movie starring Ken Takakura. His followup, "Tengoku made no Hyaku Mairu (The One Hundred Miles to Heaven)," was published in the fall of 1998. Veteran TV director Katsumi Oyama...
Japan Times
Special Supplements / Hiroshima G7 Summit Special
May 19, 2023

Kanazawa: At the intersection of past, present and future

Kanazawa, the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture, co-hosted the Education Ministers’ Meeting on May 14 and 15 ahead of the upcoming G7 Summit. It would be hard to find a more appropriate venue for a conference centered on learning, given the rich culture of this city by the Sea of Japan that blends tradition...
Yayoi Kusama’s “Pumpkin,” once the victim of high waves that dragged it into the sea, sits at the end of a pier on the south side of Naoshima.
PODCAST / deep dive
Jun 6, 2024

The sweaty pleasure of Japan’s inconvenient art

This week, writer Thu-Huong Ha is our tour guide into the world of Japan’s inconvenient art movement.
People wait to cross a street in Kyoto in April. The number of foreign visitors to Japan came to 3.04 million in May, marking the third straight month at more than 3 million.
JAPAN
Jun 19, 2024

Flood of tourists prompts call to charge foreign visitors more

Foreign tourist arrivals numbered 3.04 million in May, up 9.6% from 2019 and marking the third straight month at over 3 million.
Why it feels like everyone in the world is heading to Japan right now
Foreign tourists visit Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo on June 14.
Russia sends waves of troops to the front in a brutal style of fighting
People stand near the scene of a strike on industrial buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on May 17.
Japan to offer average of ¥2,125 per month in subsidies for utility bills
The central government will provide subsidies to slash electricity and city gas bills of ¥4 per kilowatt-hour of electricity and ¥17.5 per cubic meter of city gas.
Chinese woman who tried to stop attack that injured Japanese dies
Hu Youping
Japan’s universities must prepare for tough changes
The University of Tokyo, the only Japanese institution in the Times university rankings’ top 50, is considering raising tuition fees.
Potential candidates in LDP presidential election come into view
Prospective candidates for the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election include digital minister Taro Kono (left) and former LDP Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba.
Osaka and Tokyo ranked as world’s ninth and 14th most livable cities
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2024 Liveability Index gave Tokyo perfect scores for stability and health care.
Yen taken back to the '80s by messaging missteps and loss of confidence
The rate of the yen against the dollar displayed in the trading room at foreign exchange brokerage Gaitame.com in Tokyo on Thursday.
U.S. and allies race to ‘Trump-proof’ Biden security deals by year-end
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference after being found guilty over hush-money charges, at Trump Tower in New York City on May 31.
Koike’s governorship shaped by slogans and questions over follow-through
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks during an interview at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Tokyo on June 3.

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