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Events / Events In Tokyo
Mar 6, 2014

Everyone is invited to enjoy art

Over thousands of years, Japanese art has evolved through many phases and genres — from pottery to sculpture, ink paintings to woodblock prints, manga to anime and much more. Although contemporary art is often thought of as conceptual and difficult to comprehend, it hasn't stopped the public from enjoying...
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JAPAN / GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Mar 2, 2014

Composer Shibuya tests limits of music

One November evening in Paris, Theatre du Chatelet was packed with people who came to see the French premiere of a new opera by a Japanese composer.
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CULTURE / Art
Feb 19, 2014

'You Reach Out — Right Now — for Something: Questioning the Concept of Fashion'

Though fashion is often dismissed as just trends in clothing, it has always had a close relationship with art — whether it has been depicted within art, is influenced by it or is considered as artwork itself. Based on magazine editor Nakako Hayashi's 2011 book "Expanded Fashion," this exhibition explores...
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CULTURE / Art
Feb 5, 2014

Searching for life's little miracles

Harumichi Saito's 'Treasures' is an exhibition that aims to be life affirming, particularly for those people considered outside the mainstream in term of physical abilities.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 5, 2014

'Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2014: True Colors'

Using new imaging media, "Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2014: True Colors" assesses the effects and prospects of globalization, examining the problems it has caused, and still can cause, as well as the importance of preventing further damage.
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CULTURE / Art
Jan 22, 2014

Hiraki Sawa’s dream world: Worth the pause for thought

Sometimes it can be irritating visiting an exhibition of video-based art. You come in halfway through one of the videos or near the end of another, and you feel that you've missed something and wonder if you should stick around to watch it from the start.
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 21, 2013

Cromartie hungry to bring baseball back to Montreal

Warren Cromartie's energy can be infectious. When the former Montreal Expos and Yomiuri Giants star gets going on a topic, his voice rises, his words drip with conviction and even over the phone, you can imagine him flashing that familiar, toothy, megawatt smile.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Dec 18, 2013

Show marks award of kabuki star's new name

Names matter, and in the realm of Japanese culture almost nowhere more than in kabuki, one of whose top names, Ennosuke IV, has just become artistic director of the Shunju-za theater in Kyoto.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 3, 2013

Panasonic eyes growth via auto parts ventures

Panasonic Corp. is in talks with automotive parts makers for possible acquisitions or alliances as Japan's No. 2 TV maker seeks to expand the components it delivers to vehicle manufacturers.
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CULTURE / Art
Nov 13, 2013

'Tatsuno Art Project 2013: Arts and Memories'

Tatsuno, a Hyogo Prefectural town known for its soy-sauce production, is also home to much traditional and historical architecture, including many centuries-old soy-sauce warehouses that once thrived during the Edo Period (1603-1868).
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CULTURE / Art
Oct 9, 2013

Explore the many ways to read cinema

Marcel Broodthaers' films mostly deal with relations between images and words, which is unsurprising given that he was a poet first who turned to film because he came to understand the medium as an extension of language. In their combination, he sought harmony between poetry, visual art and cinema. It...
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CULTURE / Art
Oct 9, 2013

'150 Years of Modern Japanese Music'

After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, as Japan continued to open its ports to trade, the government also introduced Western music to education curriculums as part of its attempt to construct a more modern, globalized nation.
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CULTURE / Art
Oct 2, 2013

The Towada Art Center expands its landscape

Ever since the Towada Art Center opened five years ago, the city in Aomori Prefecture has seen its prospects dramatically alter. Not only by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, but by the subsequent devastation of neighboring areas, all of which compounded the dwindling prosperity of Towada....
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CULTURE / Art
Sep 11, 2013

Real-world validations of our digital realm

"We are now living in a super, hyper-extended information society," says curator Masafumi Fukugawa, "and that idea was the starting point for our new exhibition."
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CULTURE / Art
Sep 4, 2013

Shuji Terayama's underground public stage

Thirty years on from the death of Shuji Terayama, Japanese theater's most avant-garde provocateur continues his renaissance with a show of his films, photography and, most importantly, theater works at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, which follows on from the recent showing of printed ephemera...
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CULTURE / Art
Aug 28, 2013

'ADC 91st Annual Awards Traveling Exhibition at Tokyo'

In 1920, the Art Directors Club (ADC) was established in New York as an organization that brought together advertising talent, and promoted their work as "art." Each year it holds the ADC Annual Awards competition, judging media, broadcast, print and graphic design from international entries, offering...
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CULTURE / Art
Aug 26, 2013

Observing the world in Yokohama's giant Orbi

What's on show at this new, nature-themed high-tech museum should appeal to your senses — literally.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 19, 2013

The truth is, 'pretty is as pretty does'

Jennifer Tress can't change who is on the cover of Cosmopolitan.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 1, 2013

Sony rides weak yen to beat profit estimates

Sony Corp., considering Daniel Loeb's push for a partial sale of its entertainment assets, said Thursday it posted first-quarter earnings that beat estimates after cutting costs, introducing new smartphones and benefiting from a weaker yen.
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 31, 2013

Big works buoyed by Dojima River's 'Little Water'

Standing in front of the largest work at the Dojima River Biennale, currently showing at the Dojima River Forum in Fukushima, Osaka, is a mesmerizing experience. A 10-meter-tall digital projection of an ethereal cascading waterfall, it glows mysteriously as its gentle rumbling permeates the dimly lit...
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 31, 2013

'Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan "In-Habit: Project Another Country"'

Husband-and-wife team Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan present "In-Habit," an installation and multimedia exhibit inspired by the Badjao indigenous people of their native Philippines.
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 17, 2013

'Being-in-the-Wired- World'

The Kawasaki City Museum has a tradition of creating exhibitions that explore the relationship between technology and art, and this one, coinciding with the museum's 25th anniversary, is no exception.
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BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 11, 2013

Apple's e-book 'conspiracy' said violated antitrust law

A U.S. judge ruled Wednesday that Apple conspired to raise e-book prices, handing the tech giant a bruising loss that could ripple throughout the industry and force companies to rethink how they meet consumer demand for digital products.
LIFE / Travel / TRAVEL INSIDER
Jul 9, 2013

American Airlines celebrity poll; Cathay's Change for Good results; Jetstar available at Lawson

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BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 9, 2013

Darvish impressing experts with his strikeout ability

If you watch the home broadcast for one of Yu Darvish's starts for the Texas Rangers, you will, at some point, hear play-by-play man Steve Busby exhorting, "got him swinging," after Darvish fans a batter.
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CULTURE / Art
Jun 9, 2013

Japan's Gutai artists celebrated like never before

"Do what no one has done before," was the rallying cry that Jiro Yoshihara, founder of the postwar Japanese art group the Gutai Art Association, demanded of his fellow members.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Jun 2, 2013

Language no barrier to multimedia Jon Kabira

With a long rousing cry of “Goooooooood Mooooorning Tooookyoooooooooooo!” Jon Kabira launches into his weekly radio show “JK Radio — Tokyo United” every Friday at 6 a.m. on J-Wave.
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CULTURE / Music
May 16, 2013

Thaemlitz's mix tackles antidancing law

It's fitting that I should be meeting Terre Thaemlitz on May 1, International Workers' Day — she wryly refers to herself as a "feminist Marxist" before we begin our interview in proper.

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