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Tokyo Public Toilet Puts On a Mesmerizing Light Show

by Sarah Rose Sharp 2 days agoFebruary 6, 2023

Tomohito Ushiro’s design features billions of shifting lighting patterns and encourages people to use the restroom without “feeling stress.”

Posted inFilm

Inu-Oh Infuses a Classical Japanese Tale With Rock ’n’ Roll

by Juan Barquin August 10, 2022August 10, 2022

Masaaki Yuasa’s latest anime feature embodies a revolutionary spirit in its tale of outcasts breaking ground in medieval Japan.

Posted inFilm

Films to Watch on the 50th Anniversary of Okinawa’s Return to Japanese Rule

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 18, 2022May 19, 2022

From 1968 to 1973, the Nihon Documentarist Union did radical documentary work in Japan. They made two films in Okinawa before, during, and after its reversion.

Posted inFilm

Panda! Go Panda! Classics Make a Delightful Comeback

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 11, 2022May 11, 2022

You don’t have to be an anime-head to appreciate these early-career shorts by the founders of Studio Ghibli.

Posted inNews

A Former Japanese Princess Is Volunteering at the Met

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 15, 2022April 15, 2022

Mako Komuro, who shed her noble title in 2017, is working on a show of Japanese hanging-scroll paintings at the New York museum.

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Tokyo’s World-Renowned Capsule Tower Will Be Demolished

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu April 7, 2022April 8, 2022

After years of disrepair, architect Kisho Kurokawa’s iconic building will be disassembled one capsule at a time.

Posted inBooks

The Magnificent History of Japanese Screens

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford November 28, 2021November 24, 2021

An exquisitely illustrated and enlightening new book reveals the screen’s unique role in Japanese history and culture from its origins to the 20th century.

Posted inComics

The Story of Kunihiko Moriguchi, a Master Kimono Painter

by Nathan Gelgud November 14, 2021November 15, 2021

Moriguchi, who studied in Japan and Paris, took the influence of Op art and applied it to the traditional art of kimono painting.

Posted inFilm

Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Unusual Approach to Filmmaking

Avatar photo by Ren Scateni October 31, 2021November 1, 2021

The Japanese filmmaker’s international profile has skyrocketed over the past year thanks to his new films Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, both of which are now hitting theaters.

Posted inFilm

In 1940s Japan, a Trophy Wife Becomes a Spy

Avatar photo by Ren Scateni September 16, 2021September 16, 2021

In Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy, a woman becomes embroiled in exposing Japanese war crimes in Manchuria.

Posted inArt

In Japan, Enormous Straw Sculptures Pop Up After Annual Rice Harvest

by Hakim Bishara September 12, 2021September 10, 2021

The Wara Art Festival was founded as a solution to the Niigata farming community’s excess of unused rice straw.

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A Typhoon Swept This Yayoi Kusama Sculpture Away to Sea

by Hakim Bishara August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

The artwork was installed on a pier on the shore of Naoshima in Kagawa Prefecture.

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