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BOB DYLAN

Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 31, 2018
More hip-hop, more J-pop and a typhoon: Fuji Rock 2018 was full of new energy
Nothing encapsulated the strangeness of this year's Fuji Rock Festival than the spectacle that unfurled on the main Green Stage on Saturday night. After delivering what was already one of the silliest sets of the weekend, EDM producer Skrillex returned for his encore, accompanied by a surprise guest...
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Nov 14, 2016
Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in literature
U.S. music legend Bob Dylan is the first songwriter to win the Nobel Prize in literature in the award's 115-year history.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2016
Bob Dylan and the wind of literary idiocy
The 'Bard of Hibbing' is a poetico-musical revolution in one man and one body of work. It is this tour de force that the Nobel committee has recognized in its selection.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Oct 23, 2016
Swedish Academy says it's up to Dylan if he wants to come to receive Nobel Prize
The committee that awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan said on Saturday it was up to the American singer-songwriter whether to attend the prize-giving ceremony later this year or not.
EDITORIALS
Oct 17, 2016
The times they are a-changin'
Throughout his career, Bob Dylan's songs have struck a chord with the young and young at heart around the world. It is hard to imagine a 'purer' or more deserving form of literature.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 17, 2016
Dylan surpassed Whitman as the American poet
Bob Dylan has surpassed Walt Whitman as the defining American artist, celebrating the capacity for self-invention as the highest form of freedom.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 3, 2014
Bob Dylan is the latest in a list of legends to visit these shores
Clad in a T-shirt for U.K. punk pioneers The Clash, 16-year-old Kyo Asada probably doesn't fit most people's image of a typical Bob Dylan fan. But judging from the crowd lined up outside Tokyo's Zepp DiverCity on the opening night of his latest Japan tour, Dylan draws a diverse bunch — not just the...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 3, 2014
No tickets available? Find a Bob Dylan-related event to get your fix
Not every Bob Dylan fan in Japan is going to nab a ticket for the musician's many shows, but don't worry — Dylan fever can be sated in other ways.
CULTURE / Music
Apr 3, 2014
Review: Bob Dylan at Zepp DiverCity, Tokyo
Just 123 days after tumultuous applause engulfed the waning strains of "Blowin' In The Wind" to bring Bob Dylan's last concert to an end at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Nov. 28, a similar cacophony awaited him at Tokyo's Zepp DiverCity on Monday at the start of his 17-show "cherry blossom" tour...
Features
May 22, 2011
Collector's 'labor of love' is a wonder to behold
From the outside it's just another concrete building rising up nine or 10 stories on a downtown Tokyo street. Inside, it's no more impressive — until Shinichiro Tatsumi opens the well-secured door to his own, private Bob Dylan heaven.

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