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
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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
Koichi Fujino's Squid (2001) Unleashing the uninhibited power of expression In recent weeks there have been several contemp...
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