Video: Sony vs. the Hackers

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

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Narashige Koide: Loving the Alien

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

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Leonard Foujita: Paris's Pet Oriental

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...

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Norihiko Dan: Liquid Architecture

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

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Shindo Tsuji: A Lifetime of Forgetting

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

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Photo: Emperor Hirohito in Disneyland

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

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Amamonzeki: Treasures of the Japanese Imperial Convents

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

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China Dress: Cosplay as Art

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

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JAPAN'S IRON AGE CONTINUES WITH NAMBU TEKKI

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

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Giant Clitoris Being Built in Tokyo

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

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Video: A Trip across Rainbow Bridge

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Madame's Yen

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...

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THE USUAL SUSPECTS

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

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Photo: Platform Scene

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

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Hisashi Tenmyouya: Samurai with a Paintbrush

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

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The Blind Seeker of Toshodaiji

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

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