May 21, 2013
What is design? If you have ever pondered that question, the “Design Ah!” Exhibition now showing at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT facility in the Tokyo Midtown complex in Tokyo's Roppongi district might give you the answer.
May 18, 2013
Editor's note: This is the fifth in a series on the history and future prospects of the Japanese TV animation industry based on accounts of former Tezuka Productions Co. staff members. The series will appear on Saturdays.
May 16, 2013
Editor's Note: The following articles are translations of reviews carried by Kokka (No. 1409), a prestigious art magazine published in Japan. The publication, which specializes in old Japanese and Oriental art, was founded in 1889 by Tenshin Okakura, a well-known Japanese art critic and philosopher (1862-1913), among others. It is held in high esteem by researchers and experts aboard.
May 15, 2013
Best-selling author Haruki Murakami's latest novel is already a blockbuster in Japan. Once it is translated in English, it is bound to take the world by storm.
May 14, 2013
KATO, Hyogo Prefecture--Perched atop a high castle tower, Rikio Takeda, 75, strikes a pose. Like a modern-day samurai warrior, he dreams of being the lord of his own keep. He doesn’t mind that the wooden model is only 1.7 meters high. It took him 10 months to build the “tenshukaku,” or donjon, himself, and his pride shows.
May 13, 2013
Reclusive novelist Haruki Murakami surprised and delighted the audience when he opened up about several topics during his recent speech at Kyoto University. Smiling and cracking jokes, the best-selling author and Nobel Prize contender was in high spirits from start to finish.
May 11, 2013
Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series on the history and future prospects of the Japanese TV animation industry based on accounts of former Tezuka Productions Co. staff members. The series will appear on Saturdays.
May 11, 2013
Yoshiki Hayashi traveled the globe before deciding to settle in the best place on the planet. For the 42-year-old musician-turned-farmer, that locale is a small, practically hidden, valley in the Kamogawa region of Chiba Prefecture.
May 10, 2013
Renowned architect Shigeru Ban is known for his diverse and wide-ranging works, which are being showcased at a major retrospective at Art Tower Mito’s Contemporary Art Gallery and Plaza, in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, and will be followed by other major events around the world.
May 09, 2013
Yasuhisa Hara's historical manga series "Kingdom" won the Manga Grand Prix at the 17th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize on April 29.
May 08, 2013
KYOTO—Haruki Murakami reiterated his love for Russian masterpieces and 19th-century literature as an influence on his work during a rare public speech and interview on May 6 at Kyoto University.
May 06, 2013
KYOTO--Best-selling author Haruki Murakami gave a rare public interview here May 6 to talk mainly about his new novel and his relationship with a late friend, psychologist Hayao Kawai.
May 06, 2013
Kenzo Takada, the Japanese fashion guru who blended the bright colors of traditional folk costumes to create an East meets West aesthetic and eponymous Kenzo label, got his start in Paris in 1970.
May 05, 2013
For 42 years, the man with a gentle smile had been selling takoyaki (fried octopus dumpling) from his red stall set up on the sidewalks near Shinjuku Station.
May 05, 2013
NASA is accepting entries for an English-language haiku contest that will put the three best poems aboard a space probe that will orbit Mars.
May 04, 2013
Editor's note: This is the third in a series on the history and future prospects of the Japanese TV animation industry based on accounts of former staff members of Tezuka Productions Co. The series will appear on Saturdays.
May 04, 2013
Many carp are swimming at the banks of the Edogawa river that borders Tokyo. You just have to look upward to find them.
May 04, 2013
ONAGAWA, Miyagi Prefecture--About 100 volunteers from around the country gathered together to help carry a mikoshi, or portable shrine, during a spring festival in this disaster-hit town on May 3.
