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Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 2, 2017
Yasunari Kawabata¡¯s surrealist window on the world
Opening with one of the most famous lines in Japanese literature ¡ª ¡°Emerging from the long border tunnel, they entered snow country,¡± shifting us at speed from the darkness of the tunnel into the bright light of the snow ¡ª Yasunari Kawabata¡¯s novel ¡°Snow Country¡± tells of a city-dwelling, worldly...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 25, 2017
Straddling East and West in art
Hybridity and eclecticism may be key concepts in much contemporary art, yet they are not new phenomena. In the Taisho Era (1912-1926), Tetsugoro Yorozu virtually personified the idea of hybrid art: As Japan rushed toward modernization, he not only experimented with the very latest forms of Western art...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 29, 2016
Cubism in Japan: Picasso¡¯s Impact
Until Jan. 29
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 7, 2015
Art¡¯s 20th-century identity crisis
The 20th century is rather like the teenager who never grew up ¡ª a century that saw itself as perpetually young, as the ¡°modernist¡± culmination of history rather than part of the historical process. In short, an age guilty of ¡°chronocentricism.¡± But, like all the other centuries, culled and packaged...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 29, 2015
¡®Best of The Best¡¯
From its collection of around 2,500 pieces, the Bridgestone Museum¡¯s ¡°Best of The Best¡± includes works by major names such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne and Jackson Pollock.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 6, 2014
The all-star cast of Kunsthaus Zurich
Switzerland is an ¡°island¡± in a ¡°sea¡± of Europe. From its elevated Alpine position in the heart of Western Europe, it figuratively looks down on the main European cultural heartlands of Italy, France and Germany, the perfect place for a wide-ranging, cosmopolitan collection of European art ¡ª which...
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Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan¡¯s landscape that they often go unnoticed.
Why Japan¡¯s utility poles won¡¯t be disappearing anytime soon
By Alex K.T. Martin

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