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LIFE / Style & Design
Aug 2, 2016
Paul Smith has earned his stripes
Colorful and cluttered, the office bursts with paraphernalia, from stacked bicycles and piles of books on designer chairs to an apple-green iMac, a futuristic record player and a red Snoopy phone on the rosewood desk.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jul 30, 2016
Is Japan ready for the LGBTQ revolution?
This past spring, at a restaurant in Tokyo's upscale Omotesando neighborhood, I encountered something new in Tokyo: a prominent sign written in English on the door of the communal WC declaring it "gender-free."
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 19, 2016
Spooky beasts keep haunting Japan's art
Seething masses of people crushed together in searing heat; empty-eyed wraiths, heads drooping in despair, shuffling to and fro — waiting for the time when they will be released their suffering. Tokyo can be hell in July and August. It isn't all bad though; there's an excellent exhibition on yōkai,...
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 19, 2016
The Renaissance rebranding of Italy
Every country tries to find an image that its people can believe in and unite around. Britain recently decided to become an island in its own right instead of a "Continental" country, tied mainly to the European Union. Japan, meanwhile, still seems caught between its manufacturing past and a perceived...
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 19, 2016
'Hello, My Name is Paul Smith'
July 27-Aug. 23
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 19, 2016
'Okazaki Kyoko Exhibition: Battlefield of Girls Life'
July 30-Sept. 11
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 19, 2016
'The Quay Brothers Phantom Museums'
July 23-Oct. 10
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 12, 2016
The fall and rise of the Empire line
The Pola Art Foundation is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and as part of this, the Pola Museum of Art has organized an ambitious exhibition that aims to present a cross-disciplinary view of art, product design and women's fashion of 19th- and early 20th-century France.
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 12, 2016
'Sacred and Secular: Israhel van Meckenem & Early German Engraving'
July 9-Sept. 19
CULTURE / Art
Jul 12, 2016
'Ben Shahn: From the Collection of Marunuma Art Park'
July 9-Sept. 25
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 5, 2016
The embellished world of Kozan Miyagawa's ceramics
In 1954-55, three Kyoto ceramists of the Sodeisha group of artists began a revolution by creating objects that fulfilled no practical role.
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 5, 2016
Seeing Greece, before its civilization peaked
We are only a month or so away from the Rio Olympics. While the world will soon be focused on that, in Japan many will also be thinking four years ahead to the Tokyo Olympics. It is easy, then, to see why the Tokyo National Museum is holding "A Journey to the Land of Immortals: Treasures of Ancient Greece."...
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 5, 2016
'Julia Margaret Cameron: A Woman Who Breathed Life into Photographs'
July 2-Sept 19
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 5, 2016
'Pearls of Belgian Modern Art'
July 2-Aug 25
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CULTURE / Art
Jun 28, 2016
'Mary Cassatt Retrospective'
Until Sept.11
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CULTURE / Art
Jun 28, 2016
'Salvador Dali'
July 1-Sept. 4

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
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