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Rediscovering the neglected master of Japan's avant-garde
Kido dials up the romance
Try out some laughter yoga with the sun at your back
Nara chefs pick up stars in new Michelin guide
'Heartbreaker'
Get on board for some art
"KAWAI Gyokudo: A Retrospective"
Now's your chance to catch up on Japanese cinema
"Goya: Lights and Shadows. Masterpieces of the Museo del Prado"
"Nakanoshima Collections: Osaka City Museum of Modern Art & The National Museum of Ar
Budding and professional photographers can take a shot at prizes
"Oyamazaki Villa's Hospitality: Big Tea Ceremony with Mitate Used by Rikyu and Monet"
Who says kaiseki dining has to be stuffy?
'Cowboys & Aliens'
Overcoming disaster via cinematic therapy
The best films come in 13s
Halloween at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo
"Bringing back memories of Frigate Ertugrul: Bond between Japan and Turkey"
Brazil ties celebrated with song
Yawn of the dead? Not in this life
Telling time with animals
Briton aims to restore poets' peak to former glory
Hachinohe's markets serve up feasts in the streets
One woman's Hyakumeizan
Citizens' forum queries nuclear 'experts'
Post-Fukushima, 'they' can no longer be trusted — if ever they could
Documenting disaster
One woman's Hyakumeizan
Minister attacked for challenging the 'family system'
Only the Japanese public's will can raze that lethal 'village'
Rich can afford to jump Japan's sinking ship
Tying up the loose ends of gaijin life
"Mito Komon' in Ise; Gunma promotional mystery; CM of the week: Benesse
Foreign films' Japanese titles often read like riddles
Death, mystery and well-endowed tanuki: a tour of terrifying Tokyo
Feeling your way around the Tokyo National Museum
Top Tokyo haunts: five scary spots
Hiroshima-area family roots inspire Canadian film director
Japan Pom Pom cheerleaders founder Fumie Takino
The ridiculously frightening world of Japanese spooks
To carry or not to carry your 'gaijin card' upon re-entry?
The natural tide of the times
Kurosawa's nightmare and the voices of Fukushima
Tokyo: What spooks you in Japan?
Artists who'll go bump in the night
Tadao Ando's bold visions: distractingly daring in design
Brainfeeder
Playful imagery born out of Berlin's ruins
Martyn
Cruel to be kind: Does noruma work in bands' favor?
Fictional faces of Fact
Burning Spirits
'Winter's Bone' / 'Gomorrah'
Tohoku students and TEDx share local and global innovations on rebuilding northeaster
"Honen and Shinran: Treasures Related to the Great Masters of the Kamakura Buddhism"
Pig in Japan: the nation's most popular meat
The most popular exhibition in the world
"Chu Enoki: Unleashing the Museum"
"Charlotte Perriand et le Japon"
'Fair Game'
"DOMA, Akioka Yoshio Ten: Mono eno Shiso to Kankei no Dezain"
Needle away your stresses in Kyoto
'Sumagura (Smuggler)'
"Shoko Uemura"
"The Lineage of Culture: The Hosokawa Family Eisei Bunko Collection"
Eat, drink and be scary in Yokohama
Halloween parades across Japan
A hippo goes under the drill
Macedonian's one-man mission to build embassy
Longtime Kyoto resident relishes Irish music scene
Cheap laughs from bumbling comedians and the YouTube zoo; CM of the week: Toto
Cyclists piste at Tokyo police crackdown
Variety spices up the womenswear shows
Hope found in despair of Japanese POW camp
Sheer delight of graceful Kurahara
PS: 'I love Japan.' And Japan loves Paul Smith, it seems
Yea! As I walk through the valley of Todoroki . . .
Less acclaim, more fun for Japan's Ig Nobel Prize winners
Canada's hanging garden of stone in Japan
Menswear designers play it by the book
Fashion Week Tokyo gets back into gear
This Halloween watch out for yu¯rei of all kinds
This Halloween watch out for yūrei of all kinds
Schizophrenic Constitution leaves foreigners' rights mired in confusion
Ganbatte and gaman stifle debate, hinder recovery
The costly fallout of tatemae and Japan's culture of deceit
Sister blazed a trail for international education
Spook out JT readers, win a Haunted Tokyo Tour or volume of terrifying tales
Justice stalled in brutal death of deportee
Designs that come out of the blue
Japan's 'new towns' are finally getting too old
Chu Enoki's sculptural landscapes, cast from an iron will
Must-see indie groups coming out of Aichi
Bitch Magnet
Record stores fuel Nagoya's scene
Canopies and Drapes "Violet, Lilly, Rose, Daisy" (Love Action)
"To See as Artists See: American Art From The Phillips Collection"
'Beatriz Inglessis, The Primal Scene'
Undressing the myth behind Goya
"Beatriz Inglessis, The Primal Scen"
'Suteki na Kanashibari (Once In a Blue Moon/A Ghost of a Chance)'
Innovation abounds at Tokyo Designers Week
"Asami Kiyokawa: Bijo Saishu"
Music fest spotlights new acts
'Free Wheels East'
"Passionate Men Challenging Iron: Keiji Uematsu, Jun Tsukawaki and Chu Enoki"
Get a sample of Japanese arts
Tokyo film fest shuns controversy
"Kyoto Kimono: Inspired Grace and Elegance from Momoyama to Edo"
Jazz at Riva degli Etruschi; marriage fair at Hyatt Regency; pets welcome at Hilton O
"Valerio Olgiati"
Fashion's Night Out offers chance for freebies
"Devotion to the Arts of Living: Daily Life Among the Ainu of the Kurile, Sakhalin an
Mushrooms and much more in Moto-Yoyogi
'Rabbit Hole" / "Another Year"
Strengthening ties with Brazil via film
Deli, coffee — and don't forget your monocle
What are they thinking?
Refusal, disposal, separation . . . exasperation
Hokkaido roots spur woman to bring folk tales to masses
'American Jesus'
Ex-Tokyo cop speaks out on a life fighting gangs — and what you can do
Penny-pinching on pensions threatens to raid retirees' nest eggs
Words for all seasons
You don't need to be bbarking to wwoof
Witnessing ways to make Japan's wasted woodlands pay
In abuse cases, family takes priority over the child
Job rankings; dramas penned by women; CM of the week: Snickers
Ex-Tokyo cop speaks out on a life fighting gangs — and what you can do
Lessons of loss and healing
Ex-Tokyo cop speaks out on a life fighting gangs — and what you can do
'American Jesus'
Occupy Tokyo lacks focus but still demands change
Hague won't help Japanese mom reunite with lost baby
'My children are my everything — the reason I'm alive'
Birthdays, debuts and memorials, all in the name of fashion
What's your favorite Korean import? asks Charles Lewis in Kamakura and Fujisawa, Kana
Put the best interests of children above pride and prejudice
Spook out readers, win a Tokyo tour or tome
More diversity in workforce touted as recipe for success
Shonan: What's your favorite Korean import?
Birthdays, debuts and memorials, all in the name of fashion
Kaela Kimura "8Eight8"
Looking information technology in the eye
Breathing life into the nature of architecture
Sun shines on Kenji Yanobe's children
At Innit's Osaka parties it's bring your own beats
Casiokids won't waste a second while in Japan
Sapphire Slows "True Breath"
"Gustavo Isoe"
"Undressing Paintings: Japanese Nudes 1880-1945"
Local brewery brings sake to Toronto
"Emerging Master 1: Makoto Aida "Be it Art or not Art"
Artists and musicians rise up to support victims of Tohoku quake
"Exhibition as media 2011: Tetsuya Umeda"
"Ways of Worldmaking"
Reworked play goes bilingual
Sleeping Beauty
'Contagion' / 'Moneyball'
Japan's antiques in one place
A taste of home: Life after National Azabu
Thanksgiving Day at Four Seasons
'Love & Other Drugs'
Flamenco dancer Kagita tells a kabuki tale
An audience with Kyoko Kagawa
"Chinese Ceramics, Lacquer and Bronzes"
'Sarariman Neo Gekijoban (Warai) (Japanese Salaryman Neo)'
Meanwhile, on the island where they say hello . . .
Searching for connections drives young documentarian
'Calamity' awaits those unready for climate-change refugees
Erotica to celebrate and educate
Kyuyoh's monochrome masterpieces
Media takes both sides of TPP debate
In the wake of the Vikings
Will trickle-down class discrimination rob Britain of what's so great?
Creating a future for Japan's aging society
Taking it easy on Tokashiki
In the wake of the Vikings
High seas piracy; the story behind 'Madame Butterfly'; CM of the week: Hagoromo Foods
Tokyo ordinance a potential contract-killer
Musical couple's commitment helps husband beat addiction
Tatemae as truth, culture clashes and Arudou's dangerous myth
Writing a will can take the uncertainty out of inheritance
Nipple Fruit
If you could meet any living Japanese person, who would it be?
Saori Yuki wants a kayōkyoku wave
"Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue"
Passepied "Watashi Kaika Shita Wa"
JinnyOops! "Mother Shock!"
"Geometry Of Light By Alyson Shotz"
Songwriter's album touches on quake
P.O.L. Style
Bending the rules with architecture
The embodiment of Buddha Shakyamuni through art
Volunteer-led Tohoku cinema provides welcome escapism
'Koi no Tsumi (Guilty of Romance)'
"Yoshiyuki Chosa: The Beauty of Metalworking"
Dvorak opera to make debut
Plenty of wine — and food to match
"Giovanni Segantini: Light and Mountains"
Fresh-baked bread to suit every dish on the menu
Gainsbourg's muse to stop by Japan on her way to North America
"Takehisa Yumeji in the Memory: Commemorate of Acquisition of the Kawanishi Hide Coll
'Henry's Crime'
Proud love pervades NHK's 'Madame Butterfly'
'George Harrison: Living in the Material World' / 'Under Control'
Fukuoka's got talent
"The Ossu! Shugeibu and Hideki Toyoshima Jiga Daizessan: My Artwork Amazes Me"
Westin Miyako maple boxed lunches
"Modes from Rococo to Art Deco: Make up, Hair and Fashion"
Holiday season starts with market in Osaka
Folksy gig is family friendly
Okinawa shutterbug captures varied reactions to Hinomaru
When are we going to eat udon?
The poetry of pet peeves
Beauty and purpose in design
Nico Nico Douga, Warner launch video on demand service
Sarobetsu's a stopover to count on for wonders
'1Q84': What I write about when I write about writing
Factories floundering in Thailand; textile master Junichi Arai; CM of the week: Epson
Is Aum's guru finally headed for the gallows?
French researchers seek raison d'etre of hikikomori
Memories of Mount Takao
The B-class-food boom reveals true Japanese cuisine
A lost gem found confirms who was the father of Japanese filmmaking
Train-shame death, anti-Comintern pact signed, Tokyo "paralyzed," Japan and U.S. to h
Smiles return to Tohoku as the circus comes to town
Paradoxes pervade gender issues' public face in Japan
You think you're funny, but really you're not
You think you're funny, but really you're not
POWs, young expats struggle to reconcile Japan of then, now
Rock star starts a new 'circle of life' with Yoyogi Village
Sappro: What's so great about winter in Hokkaido?
MacArthur, identity theory and Japan's lingering eigo woes
More on carrying your gaijin card, and where to find Indian temples
Universities risk getting what they pay for with English tutors
Small surprises and understated brilliance
Sapporo: What's so great about winter in Hokkaido?
The rivaling schools of classic Japanese art
Beatmakers just wanna have fun
Ruins Alone "Ruins Alone"
Blackwoods
Seigo Hatasawa is no ordinary school teacher
Late-night dancing should not be a crime in Japan
Dressed to impress Tokyo's art crowd
Self-Defence Forces to put on air show in Gifu
Sweet dreams of a childhood winter warmer
Balloons over Biwa make for beautiful pics
"The Flower of Jade Green: Longquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty"
"Shigemori Mirei: Hokutoshichisei no Niwa Ten"