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JAPANESE

COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 1, 2015
Hedge fund activists are Japan's best friend
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should leverage the uptick in foreign investment to reignite his economic reform program.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
May 30, 2015
Home in on Japan's postwar architecture
In the 1960s, architect Kazuo Shinohara made a famous comment in Shinkenchiku magazine: "Residence is art. ... Residence should be outside of what is believed as architecture, it should rather be considered as a form of art, like paintings and sculptures." A bold statement considering that unlike paintings...
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CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
May 30, 2015
'Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings' reveals intricacies of Edo Period architecture and interiors
"Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings" was first published in 1886, less than two decades after the Meiji Restoration, a time when Japan reopened itself to the world. But the same openness that allowed Morse to document Japanese architecture as a living tradition would soon transform the urban landscape...
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LIFE / Style & Design
May 30, 2015
Sayoko Yamaguchi, an enigma to the end
You may not know the name, but there is a good chance you know the face. As Clara Bow, Greta Garbo and Twiggy were iconic of their times, Sayoko Yamaguchi was everywhere in the 1970s. Even if you weren't a dedicated follower of fashion, it would have been difficult to avoid her cool gaze, which appeared...
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BUSINESS / Economy
May 28, 2015
Japan Inc.'s investor payouts set to surge from record ¥12.8 trillion in fiscal 2014
Japanese companies, long known for being stingy with shareholders, doled out record amounts of cash to investors in the past year. It's just the start of the payouts.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
May 22, 2015
The dog days of cooking
Here's a recipe for ambiguity: Cooking with dog. Could it literally mean, cooking a dog? How about cooking for canines? Or, is it some weird code for cooking fetishes somewhere on the deep Web? Lucky for us (and the dogs), "Cooking with Dog" is a YouTube show featuring a Japanese housewife, known only...
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JAPAN / ANALYSIS
May 21, 2015
Japan aquariums divided on move to ban Taiji dolphins
Some members of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums have applauded the decision. Others suggested they're considering whether to leave the group in order to procure wild dolphin.
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JAPAN
May 20, 2015
Japan aquariums vote to stop using dolphins from Taiji
The Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums announced Wednesday that it will ban its members from buying dolphins caught off the town of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, amid protests from activists and pressure from a global industry body to stop the practice.
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JAPAN
May 20, 2015
Japanese-American arts group seeking funds to upgrade LA theater
A Los Angeles-based Japanese arts group called Wednesday for business and government to support their efforts to revitalize a local theater that has staged performances for the Japanese community in the United States for decades.
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JAPAN / Politics
May 19, 2015
Tokyo governor slams opaqueness of 'Imperial' central government's Olympic spending
As financing questions linger over the costly rebuilding of National Stadium for the 2020 Olympics, Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe lashes out at the central government, likening it to the reality-denying Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
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CULTURE / Art
May 19, 2015
Seeing beyond Jiro Takamatsu's shadows
"Jiro Takamatsu: Trajectory of Work" is taxonomic, breaking down everything in the artist's oeuvre into relatively neat successions of projects and including his paintings and sculptures, copious sketches and the marginalia. Even the catalog seemingly calls for a scientific approach, this exhibition...
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CULTURE / Art
May 19, 2015
'Nobuaki Onishi: Vacuum'
May 23-June 20

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