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Video: Sony vs. the Hackers

December 24, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Why was Sony hacked? Stefan Molyneux makes the case that the company over-invested in content and then failed to realize projected rev...

Narashige Koide: Loving the Alien

December 05, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Nude Lying (1930) White rappers used to be a joke until the recent advent of Eminem, whose rapping skills are now widely respected a...

Leonard Foujita: Paris's Pet Oriental

November 21, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Self Portrait, 1936 It wasn’t for nothing that the Ecole de Paris was called a school. In the early decades of the 20th century artis...

Norihiko Dan: Liquid Architecture

October 04, 2014 Add Comment Edit

It Never Rains But It Pours Imagine: Five years from today, you’re cycling through the Japanese countryside. Dappled sunlight cour...

Shindo Tsuji: A Lifetime of Forgetting

September 23, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Face, 1956 In 1948 the respected Zen elder Ian Kishizawa told the sculptor Shindo Tsuji, “Forget whatever you can and express whateve...

Photo: Emperor Hirohito in Disneyland

July 22, 2014 Add Comment Edit

During a 1975 visit to the United States, Emperor Hirohito paid a visit to Disneyland, where America's head of state, a large mo...

Amamonzeki: Treasures of the Japanese Imperial Convents

July 18, 2014 Add Comment Edit

"The Death of Buddha" (detail) Skeptic that I am, when I heard there was an historical exhibition on the lives and art of Ja...

China Dress: Cosplay as Art

July 02, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Perfume (1915) by Takeji Fujishima The latest exhibition at the Bridgestone Museum of Art is a small but fascinating look at the moti...

JAPAN'S IRON AGE CONTINUES WITH NAMBU TEKKI

May 31, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Nowadays we seldom think about how the weather impacts on our working patterns, but in the past it was obviously a much more important...

Giant Clitoris Being Built in Tokyo

May 16, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Japan's attempts at conforming to the hegemonic multicultural and gender-deconstructed culture of the West can sometimes have inter...

Video: A Trip across Rainbow Bridge

May 11, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Madame's Yen

April 30, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Japanese men and women have a symbiotic relationship. The men are expected to make the money, the women to spend it. Thus has it always...

THE USUAL SUSPECTS

April 19, 2014 Add Comment Edit

From drunken sprees in the Vatican to suicide by dog leash, Japan beats the world when it comes to political scandals Power is said...

Photo: Platform Scene

March 21, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Some passengers in Tokyo waiting for a train – a portly "computer games enthusiast," two elderly ladies (with dyed hair), and...

Hisashi Tenmyouya: Samurai with a Paintbrush

March 09, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Para-para (Great Empire of Japan) vs. Break-dancing (America) (2001) One of the strangest and most interesting characteristics of ...

The Blind Seeker of Toshodaiji

February 11, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Ganjin Mankind’s religious sentiments have often been reinforced by the awe created by powerful forces of nature. But occasionally su...