CULTURE
Architecture art exhibition highlights unsung industry ...
For only the second time in its 39-year history, the “Architecture in Perspectiv...
Tokyo film festival to open with Everest and close with...
Japan’s main movie event kicks off Oct. 27 with the true story of the first woma...
Finding jazz in J-pop: Patrick Bartley’s musical second...
The J-Music Ensemble leader translates Japanese culture into a classic American ...
The familiar is made surreal in ‘After the Quake’
Tsuyoshi Inoue’s feature reworks NHK’s four-part Haruki Murakami drama adaptatio...
‘Hero’s Island’: Okinawa-set epic is lavishly realized ...
Keisuke Otomo recreates postwar turmoil in rich detail that is sometimes more vi...
Tokyo film festival to open with Everest pioneer drama,...
Japan’s largest film festival will kick off with the true story of the first wom...
Yoko Tawada’s wandering trilogy concludes search for th...
In “Archipelago of the Sun,” the merry band of polyglot friends board a boat cro...
Aichi Triennale’s message from the world: Free Palestine
At Aichi Triennale 2025, Hoor Al Qasimi, the festival’s first foreign artistic d...
Why Japan’s most melancholic writer speaks to today’s y...
Osamu Dazai's works are enjoying a new boom of retranslations and readers 80 yea...
YouTuber Gigguk shifts from talking anime to making anime
Garnt Maneetapho, who runs the YouTube channel Gigguk, makes the jump from criti...
‘Prism of the Real’ makes two turbulent decades tangibl...
Born of a partnership between The National Art Center, Tokyo and M+, the show re...
‘Ranshima Bound’: Family fractures and buried truths co...
Tomoki Kimura’s turn as a one-time punk rocker drifting through life grounds Kam...
Park Chan-wook’s sharp satire ‘No Other Choice’ opens B...
The director's socially charged murder-comedy made its Asian premiere at the fil...
A bucket becomes a house in the hands of craftsman Shuj...
At Go for Kogei 2025, a third-generation woodworker envisions new forms for a hu...
From high risk to record-breaker, ‘Kokuho’ defied expec...
Lee Sang-il's three-hour kabuki drama overcame doubts over subject matter to fin...
‘Dear Stranger’ confronts marriage in turmoil, but lack...
Despite its emotional stakes, Tetsuya Mariko’s kidnapping drama stumbles on stil...
