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Ayano Kikuchi began practicing yoga in 2014 to alleviate her chronic back pain, and now shares her knowledge with the Karuizawa community as the manager of W Tree House.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
May 10, 2025
Ayano Kikuchi: ¡®People need to take care of themselves holistically¡¯
How a corporate office worker in Tokyo became a yoga studio manager in Karuizawa
After almost a decade of traveling around the world, a working holiday during the 2019 ski season in Nozawa Onsen was to be Rowie Geraerts¡¯ last hurrah before she settled down in Australia.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Nov 25, 2024
How a solo yoga teacher built a wellness community in the Japanese Alps
A budding entrepreneur from Australia, Rowie Geraerts has created Shizen Collective in Nozawa Onsen ¡ª a new home for herself, locals and visitors.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Sep 13, 2020
Keerthana Mariappan: ¡®People recognize the potential of India as an economic and cultural partner¡¯
Keerthana Mariappan balances a fast-paced job with a life of practicing and teaching yoga.
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 / Film / Wide Angle
Aug 31, 2016
¡®Breath of the Gods¡¯: Deep breathing for a stressful life
Yoga takes up a huge chunk of Japan¡¯s fitness market. Some IT companies in the Tokyo area have even incorporated yoga and meditation into their daily schedules, just to show how much they care about their employees¡¯ health and mental state. But some employees need no prompts. According to healthcare...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 25, 2015
¡®Here Comes the Sun¡¯ traces one woman¡¯s spiritual journey through Japan
With the success of last year¡¯s popular NHK drama, ¡°Massan¡± ¡ª a dramatization of the life of Scotswoman Rita Cowan in early 20th-century Japan ¡ª it was inevitable that interest in foreign wives in this country would surge.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 26, 2015
Nihonga didn¡¯t ignore the West
From the early 1880s, painting in Japan became bisected. Y¨­ga was used to categorize works in oils that were inspired by European painting movements and nihonga became the umbrella term for a whole array of earlier Japanese painting traditions that were later modernized.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Nov 1, 2013
Writer, translator, yoga instructor finds inspiration in ¡®the voices that history silences¡¯
Leza Lowitz has shared the worlds of kamikaze pilots and their last letters to their families, published lesbian writings by contemporary Japanese poets, specifically sought out Ainu writers, and journeyed into the mind of Japan¡¯s foremost modernist poet, Nobuo Ayukawa.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Jun 8, 2013
Yoga teacher finds creative voice ¡ª and success ¡ª in ¡®surreal¡¯ Tokyo
While hammering nails and cutting planks in the prop department at New York¡¯s Lincoln Center for the Metropolitan Opera in the early 2000s, Barry Silver never dreamed of a life in Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 16, 2013
¡®The Shibakawa Collection: Tribute to a Patron of Aoki Shigeru, Kishida Ryusei and Others¡¯
During the late1800s, westernization in Japan brought about a new art style ¡ª y¨­ga, for which Japanese artists emulated western conventions and techniques, inspired in particular by European painters.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Apr 8, 2010
New hobbies for swinging into spring
With the start of the financial/academic year, April is a time for a fresh start and taking up a new hobby.
Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania
A Pokemon event is held in Jakarta on July 11
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.
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.
Inside Toho Archive¡¯s mission to save Japan¡¯s cinematic memory
The goal of restoration is not to artificially upscale but to return the film to the condition it was in ¡°the very first day it appeared in the world,¡± says Nobushige Toshima, president and sales division manager of Toho Archive.
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.

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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