May 12, 2021
Time is running out for an iconic Tokyo building that, for the romantic, stands as a futuristic symbol of a bygone Showa age, and for the pragmatic, represents a decrepit eyesore well past its prime....
When I was a university student — that is, more than 40 years ago — there was a jazz bar called Peter Cat outside the south exit of JR Kokubunji Station in Tokyo. Peter Cat was a neat place servin...
Up-and-coming boy band Snow Man is riding a wave of popularity. Its nine members, who made their CD debut together last year, are currently starring in the show “Takizawa Kabuki Zero 2021” at a th...
It’s not widely known that during World War II, the director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Hibiya Library, the predecessor of the Hibiya Library and Museum, coordinated the large-scale transportation of...
Performances of the ballet “Coppelia” by the National Ballet of Japan will be livestreamed for free on May 2, 4, 5 and 8 from the New National Theatre, Tokyo (NNTT).
The performances will be giv...
GUANGZHOU/LOS ANGELES — China-born director Chloe Zhao became the first Asian woman to win the Academy Award for best director for her film “Nomadland” on Sunday, but her accomplishment was bare...
Walking near Kawasaki Station after an interview the other day, I came across some impressive walls surrounding the construction site for the main building of Kawasaki City Hall.
The 3-meter-high wa...
An all-star lineup of popular characters created by the late Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) will team up to fight for peace in the universe in a new science fiction manga to be serialized simultaneously in...
“Monster Hunter” is a role-playing action game where players cooperate online and fight powerful monsters. The video game series by Capcom Co., nicknamed “Mon Hun,” has steadily built up a fan...
A daikon radish that emits sensual moans when touched, a robot wearing a mask printed with the 3D image of a human face, a mikoshi portable shrine adorned with blinking LED lights — all are just a f...
A group of rickshaw men not only offer their hospitality to tourists, they also have a hit single that reached No. 1 on the weekly Oricon hit single rankings in the enka and kayokyoku Japanese pop son...
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, it is becoming the norm in the fashion industry for unprofitable shops to close down and rare to see a new one pop up. However, on Feb. 28, Hermes opened a new flagship ...
Foo Fighters, the American rock band that is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee this year and has won multiple Grammy Awards, have collaborated remotely with a sake brewery in snowy Yamagata Prefectur...
The Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra’s 2021-22 season program is a daring one that includes many rarely performed epics and hidden gems as well as many Japanese premieres. The orchestra will also d...
An annual flower show celebrating orchids started on Thursday at Tokyo Dome City’s Prism Hall in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo.
The JGP International Orchid and Flower Show, which is organized by The Yomiuri...
Donabe clay pots usually evoke images of a steaming yosenabe hot-pot full of ingredients just right for a winter’s evening. Recently, however, this earthenware comes with the added joy of buyers bei...
No matter their wares, retail businesses are having trouble turning a profit because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sales at physical stores are in a slump as a result of recent lifestyle changes including...
Group report cards for students including novelist Osamu Dazai (1909-48) during his school days in Aomori City have been discovered, showing that he was a competent student who excelled in math.
Accor...
Hokuto Matsumura, a member of the boy band SixTONES, has been flying high since the group released their debut single last year. He also stars in “Liar x Liar,” a film that hit theaters just last ...
The graduation ceremony of the Takarazuka Music School in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, which trains aspiring members of the all-female Takarazuka Revue, took place at the school on Wednesday. A tot...
Despite some lingering diplomatic animosity between Japan and South Korea, last year saw South Korean TV drama “Crash Landing on You” streamed on Netflix becoming a huge hit in Japan. Pop girl ban...
Tap your smartphone and you get to see an infinite number of posts, both positive and negative, on social media. Haven’t you ever thought, “No, I don’t want to see them anymore” at a certain p...
An exhibition space re-creating part of the residence of novelist Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) has opened at a gallery in front of JR Mitaka Station in Mitaka, Tokyo.
The space at the Mitaka City Gallery...
More than seven years have passed since I first laid eyes on the ceramic work of up-and-coming potter and artist Takuro Kuwata at a Tokyo group exhibition. A collection of ceramic pots, cups and other...
Many Japanese people love aspects of South Korean culture such as TV dramas, K-pop and cuisine. Now a fourth wave appears to have captured the hearts of the youth of Japan — fashion.
These days, ...
Last year’s winner of the annual new word and buzzword of the year competition organized by U-Can, Inc. was “sanmitsu,” a term coined and frequently used by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike to alert Toky...
A chronological journey through the history of 20th-century Western art is underway at the Yokohama Museum of Art, in a collaborative exhibition also featuring items from the Aichi Prefectural Museum ...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga expressed his intention to strengthen efforts to lend items from the collection of the Sannomaru Shozokan (The Museum of the Imperial Collections) to local museums and ar...
The Cultural Affairs Agency is planning from next fiscal year to assist cultural facilities stream events in a bid to shore up finances in an industry that has been battered by the novel coronavirus ...
A photobook that Yukio Mishima (1925-70) worked on shortly before his death will be published in Japan in a large-format limited edition printing for ¥500,000, plus tax, according to the publisher.
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