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AVANT GARDE

Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 28, 2020
Phew alternates between jagged noise and soft vocal elements at a dizzying pace on ¡®Vertigo KO¡¯
Phew takes inspiration from the pandemic and her punk roots on ¡®Vertical KO.¡¯
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE 51³Ô¹ÏÍø?
May 25, 2019
Avant-garde artist Yoshiko Chuma traverses disciplines, nations and causes
Avant-garde artist Yoshiko Chuma challenges the conventions of dance, traversing disciplines, nations and causes.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 5, 2019
Gentaro Komaki: A pioneer of surrealism
Gentaro Komaki (1906-89), the son of a Kyoto Prefecture silk crepe wholesaler, lived a decadent youth of literature and philosophy, until seeing the work of Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy inspired to pursue surrealist art.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 20, 2018
Koga: A pithy affair with the avant-garde
There are two good reasons to see the exhibition on the short-lived photography magazine Koga, now on at the Tokyo Photographic Art (TOP) Museum. One is that it is full of powerful images that will linger in the memory despite their relative simplicity. The other is that, as the story of art continues...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 2, 2018
The zero hour of Kobe¡¯s avant-garde
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art¡¯s present draw card is the Saint Petersburg collection, ¡°Old Masters from the State Hermitage Museum.¡± But on a lower level, at the far end of a long corridor gallery, are photos and grainy videos ¡ª the small-scale documentation of one of Japan¡¯s little-known postwar...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 18, 2017
Keiji Haino at 65: ¡®I want to be a bad boy, right until the end¡¯
¡°I don¡¯t want people to treat me like a god,¡± says Keiji Haino, chuckling. ¡°I want to be a bad boy, right until the end.¡±
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 25, 2017
¡®Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan¡¯: Reiko Tomii brings Japanese art in from the cold
Reiko Tomii¡¯s profound and accessible study of 1960s avant-garde art from Japan offers an answer to a perennial problem in the appreciation of Japanese culture.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 6, 2015
Punk survivor Phew changes direction on ¡®A New World¡¯
Even as a child, Phew realized she was a bit different. ¡°When I was at school, if the teacher told a joke and everyone else in the class laughed, I was always the one who couldn¡¯t see what was funny,¡± she says. ¡°I¡¯ve always been like that.¡±
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 13, 2015
¡®Matsutani Currents¡¯
Oct. 10-Dec. 6
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Oct 27, 2014
Avant-garde artist, writer Genpei Akasegawa dies
GENPEI AKASEGAWA
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 9, 2014
¡®Finding Modigliani: From Parisian Avant-garde to Classicism¡¯
In 1906, Amedeo Modigliani, an Italian painter and sculptor, moved to France to join the School of Paris, a group of young talented international artists inspired by the capital¡¯s avant-garde movement of the early 20th century. A popular artist among his peers, he became a well-known character, but his...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 22, 2014
¡®Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant Garde¡¯
In London, 1848, a group of young pioneering artists began to shake the mid-19th-century British art world by combining rebellion and revivalism with scientific precision and the imagination. They took inspiration from early Renaissance painting and willfully challenged artistic conventions, calling...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 4, 2013
Trapped by human society
Osaka-born Tetsumi Kudo¡¯s oeuvre has been the subject of a number of major international retrospectives since his death in 1990, and these indicate the artist¡¯s increasing postwar historical significance. The current National Museum of Art, Osaka retrospective is magisterial. With more than 600 pages,...
Japan Times
Events / Events In Tokyo
Mar 22, 2013
G-tokyo art fair makes a change
This year, four-year-old art fair G-tokyo boasts that it will turn over a new leaf with some radical changes.
Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania
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Japan to set up expert working group on accepting foreign nationals
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (second from left) addresses a meeting of ministers responsible for policies concerning foreign residents, held at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Head of Swiss euthanasia firm dies after collapsing while ascending Mount Fuji
Around 200,000 people typically scale the 3,776 meter Mount Fuji each year.
Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" ¡ª an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
The sci-fi sensibilities of electronic trio Black Boboi
Black Boboi was formed in 2018 when solo artists Julia Shortreed, Utena Kobayashi and Ermhoi came together under Kobayashi¡¯s newly founded label, Bindividual.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.
Can Japanese comedy get laughs in English? Yoshimoto Kogyo lets the jokes rip
Wes-P has millions of followers and his viral clips made him recognizable out of Japan.
The 180-day locals: Life on Japan¡¯s digital nomad visa
Christopher Flinn works remotely from Tokyo earlier this month. Japan issued 646 digital nomad visas in 2025, but tourism officials are hoping to increase that figure in the coming years, with Japan's relatively cheap cost of living and the weak yen seen as potential draws for young professionals.
Japan reveals hint of new defense spending target in fiscal blueprint
The Self-Defense Forces' Type 16 mobile combat vehicle fires during a joint live-fire drill with U.S. Marines as part of the annual Resolute Dragon exercises in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on June 28.

Podcast

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Why Japan¡¯s utility poles won¡¯t be disappearing anytime soon
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