‘The Bodyguard’ musical to make Japan debut
Culture
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Universal puts ‘The Hunt’ on hold
LOS ANGELES (AFP-Jiji) —The release of a film criticized by conservatives as portraying a group of liberals hunting supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump has been indefinitely postponed, Univers...
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Sacoches rise, handbags shrink
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Vadim Repin ready for BBC Proms in Japan
Avid classical music fans know how special the BBC Proms is. Held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the music festival with a history of more than 120 years has a mission to bring class...
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Japanese hair, makeup artist Hirofumi Kera leaps across boundaries
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Hollywood film features actor with Down syndrome
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Oscar-winning documentary maker D.A. Pennebaker dies at 94
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Tokyo: ‘Town of Movies’ promotes Japan’s cinematic history
About 40 movie- and video-related companies are active in the city of Chofu, Tokyo, which was once known as “the Hollywood of the Orient.” Clean water for use in film developing was one factor...
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Fumiya Fujii dazzles with fine art prowess
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Creative talents meld to cross boundaries for ‘pleasant feelings of strangeness’
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Top talents help honor Sarajevo Film Festival
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It depends on the context — but depending on the culture, maybe not so much
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Iemoto: Hereditary keepers of Japan’s traditional arts
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Mental sparks fly in welding workshops
Large sparks flying, a welder in a protective mask joins together iron parts using thousands of degrees of heat. This is a familiar scene at construction sites and factories, but it’s rare to experi...
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Kodan: Storytelling tradition emerges into the limelight
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‘Star Trek’ favorites to return with Patrick Stewart in ‘Picard’
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Kitaoka examines Japan’s role in world
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Anthropologist ventures into the culture of online gaming
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Refreshing ‘Turandot’ brings new perspective to ending
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Musical about domestic violence premieres in Tokyo
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Animals, Shinto serve as gateways into Japanese art
A festival of events introducing Japanese culture to the culturally diverse United States is being held in Washington and other cities this year. Shinto, animals and “The Tale of Genji” are all ke...
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Noh: Steeped in history, traditional theater leverages modern language to connect
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Tears, trials brought ‘King and I’ cast together
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From Tokyo, ‘Turandot’ set to rock the world
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Rakugo: Momentum builds to find new audiences overseas
Rakugo is a one-person show in which the performer — wearing a kimono and kneeling on a traditional square cushion — tells a usually comical story, distinctively portraying multiple characters thr...
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Gallery opens one day a week — inside a hair salon
You may find it difficult to locate the gallery. There’s no sign, and even if you’re in the right spot, you can’t see what it’s like inside because the curtains are drawn tight, as if shutting...
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New Godzilla film a worthy successor to the original
Sixty-five years after first hitting theaters, Godzilla is still going strong and boasts a global following. “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” Hollywood’s latest film starring Japan’s iconic k...
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5-min ‘battles’ add flair to flower arranging
Floral designers and practitioners of traditional Japanese flower arranging put their skills to the test in a “hanaike flower arranging battle” held in Ota Ward, Tokyo, in late May. The event had ...
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Hisashi Inoue works get memorial series
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Kabuki: Nakamura Shido man of innovation, tradition
Kabuki star Nakamura Shido II upholds the career theme of “tradition and innovation.”
Kabuki actors form troupes in “family” units with their “specialty” basically passed down from fat...
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Koi winning fans around the world
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Vienna’s glory re-created at Tokyo exhibition
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Yamada to conduct rare gems
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Kabuki: There’s no substitute for being there
