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Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / CULTURE SMASH
Apr 23, 2017
Anime gives Japanese bands a new route to potential fans
"Retro" was the theme at this year's Anime Boston, the largest anime convention in the Northeastern United States, and that idea extended to the event's featured musical acts: veteran pop duo Puffy AmiYumi and 1960s-styled rock quartet Okamoto's.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Apr 20, 2017
Japan, take pride in 'Your Name.'
Two weeks ago, the United States' box office saw a surprising animated feature take the top spot and generate large amounts of discussion — and memes — on social media.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 20, 2017
Watch, read, rewind: using Netflix to boost your Japanese
It's a great time to be studying Japanese. As well as the internet, students can mine online video streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu to improve their language skills.
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Jan 21, 2017
Japanese folklore meets anime in Kyoto
The colors were jarring. Beneath the vermillion torii gates of Kyoto's Shimogamo Shrine and surrounded by the olive broadleaves of Tadasu Forest was a pool of furry, bright yellow ponchos, decorated with the brown facial features, rounded ears and bulbous oblong tails of the tanuki, or Japanese raccoon...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2016
'Sailor Moon' condoms combat syphilis but heroine's fans flustered by age issue
The superheroine from the popular manga and anime series "Sailor Moon" has emerged once again to fight another evil — syphilis.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 30, 2016
Porter Robinson seeks 'Shelter' inside a fantasy world for his anime debut
At 10:15 p.m. on Oct. 18, Porter Robinson stood on a street corner in Shibuya and watched his lifelong dream become reality.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 20, 2016
Tokyo International Film Festival welcomes audiences to the animated world of Mamoru Hosoda
The Tokyo International Film Festival, whose 29th edition unspools from Oct. 25 to Nov. 3, offers something for everyone — from golden oldies in the Japanese Classics section to films for kids in the new Youth section. However, as Japan's biggest film festival, as well as one of the most important...
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Sep 26, 2016
Let's discuss anime and manga tourism
Anime and manga will play a bigger role in promoting tourism across Japan under an initiative to make better use of the nation's pop culture.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Sep 18, 2016
Londoner finds her voice on the Tokyo stage
Originally setting out to be a Japanese voice actress, Reina has arrived at a destination she had not foreseen, a place where outside voices are rarely heard.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 16, 2016
Anime and manga to play bigger role in luring tourists to Japan
Anime and manga are set to play a bigger role in promoting tourism across Japan under an initiative launched Friday to make better use of the nation's pop culture.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 6, 2016
'Leiji Matsumoto and Miyako Maki'
Sept. 10-Nov. 20
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 30, 2016
Tokyo VR attraction puts you in the heart of a Gundam battle
In 2009, anime fans were delighted when a life-size statue of a Gundam robot was unveiled in Tokyo's Odaiba district. The statue has now become a landmark attraction in the shopping and entertainment area.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 10, 2016
'Rudolph the Black Cat': Curiosity helps this little black cat
Many Japanese films for kids are entries in venerable anime series belonging to multiplatform franchises. To their target audience they are pre-sold and, in their formulas, pre-seen. And that audience is by and large domestic. One big exception is "Stand By Me Doraemon," a 3-D CG anime starring a blue...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 25, 2016
Despite challenges, young Cubans being drawn into world of anime, manga
Cuba may be one of the world's least connected countries but that is not stopping the Japanese subculture of animated movies, manga comics and video games from spreading feverishly among its youth.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 19, 2016
'Okazaki Kyoko Exhibition: Battlefield of Girls Life'
July 30-Sept. 11
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Jul 16, 2016
Anime discovers a rural outpost
For the past few years, the beginning of July has found me on a flight from Tokyo to Los Angeles to attend Anime Expo (AX), the largest annual North American convention devoted to Japanese popular culture, and its related industry-only event, Project Anime (PA). Both continue to break attendance records....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 7, 2016
'Eguchi Hisashi Pop Art Exhibition: King of Pop — Kyoto Edition'
June 11-Sept 4
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

Podcast

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

Longform

Sociologist Gracia Liu-Farrer argues that even though immigration doesn't figure into Japan's autobiography, it is more of a self-perception than a reality.
In search of the ‘Japanese dream’
By Thu-Huong Ha

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