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Makoto Aida: Eros with a Smile and a Sneer

November 15, 2012 Add Comment Edit
When artists try to push our buttons, don't be surprised to find them groping for the highly sensitive crotch area, which has more ...
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Harue Koga: The Art of Assimilating Western Styles

October 26, 2012 Add Comment Edit
Fireworks The curse of early Western-style Japanese painters is the charge of derivativeness. Simply because they embraced foreign ar...
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Welcome to the Retrozone

October 12, 2012 1 Comment Edit
Tokyo's weird obsession with trying (but not too hard) to look vaguely like a Victorian Western city .
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Video: Neurowear "Shippo"

Video: Neurowear "Shippo"

September 24, 2012 Add Comment Edit
I came across the "shippo" neurowear tail at Tokyo Game Show 2012. It is an extension of a previous neurowear product that fe...
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Exhibition: Taro Okamoto and Jomon Art

August 27, 2012 Add Comment Edit
Jomon Man, 1982 Revisiting his ancestors' art Taro Okamoto (1911-96) is perhaps Japan's most famous post-war artist. With ...
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Interview: Akaji Maro

July 19, 2012 Add Comment Edit
Butoh: taking a cross-eyed, bow-legged bow When the young dancer Yoshito Ohno simulated sex by breaking the neck of a live chicken b...
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The Ryōunkaku Tower

March 22, 2012 Add Comment Edit
Between 1890, when it was built, and 1923, when it was destroyed, the Ryōunkaku was Tokyo's tallest building. Measuring 69 me...
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Photo: JR Poster Camapign Promoting Tourism to Tohoku Region

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The Fukushima nuclear accident has been declared officially ended with the 'cold shutdown' of the heavily damaged nuclear react...
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Exhibition: Art Brut Japonais

January 12, 2012 Add Comment Edit
Koichi Fujino's Squid (2001) Unleashing the uninhibited power of expression In recent weeks there have been several contemp...
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