Keyword: Japan

Interview: Translator Motoyuki Shibata on Manga, Murakami and Monkey Business

Motoyuki Shibata at Asia Society New York in December 2010.

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Japan's master translator, a one-man conduit between American and Japanese literature, shares his thoughts on both literary cultures. Shibata appears with a panel of American and Japanese writers at Asia Society New York this Sunday, May 6.

May 2nd by Jeff Tompkins | Comments

Photo of the Day: Tokyo in Monochrome

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A street lamp in Tokyo, Japan in February, 2012. (ichigonotsukikagen /Flickr)

April 25th by Nadia Rasul | Comments

Photo of the Day: Beautiful Obsolescence in Japan

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Honda Sky scooter, a few years out of service, Hakone Yumoto, Japan on April 5, 2012. (Reed George /Flickr)

April 17th by Nadia Rasul | Comments

A Hip Hop Dance Response to Japan's 2011 Disaster

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Watch Japanese contemporary dancer and choreographer KENTARO!! perform his solo piece After Raining, It Will Be Sunny, in an Asia Society India Centre event at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai last month.

April 10th by Dan Washburn | Comments

Video: Emperor's Speech Accompanies Unseen Footage of Japan Quake Zone

Haunting, evocative imagery from Japan's disaster area provides a context for the Emperor's address to the nation one year after the tsunami struck.

March 26th by Michael McAteer | Comments

Watch: Japanese Punk Band Becomes Voice of 'Generation Fukushima'

A screenshot of the Frying Dutchman video for

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The Kyoto-based band's spoken-word song "humanERROR" has turned into an anthem of sorts for Japan's traditionally apolitical youth.

March 12th by Michael McAteer | Comments

Photos: John Lennon Made From Thousands of Paper Cranes in Japan

A John Lennon mural made from more than 10,000 origami cranes at the train station in Kagoshima, Japan. (Michael McAteer)

Multimedia An 8th grade class in Kagoshima, Japan created a John Lennon mural using 10,656 origami "peace cranes."

March 9th by Michael McAteer | Comments

Interview: Sunada Mami on Filming Her Father's Final Days [Images/Video]

Sunada Tomoaki in a still from his daughter's documentary film about his death. (Bitters End, Inc.)

Arts

Sunada’s directorial debut Death of a Japanese Salesman (2011) opens Asia Society New York’s new film series Extreme Private Ethos: Japanese Documentaries on March 10.

March 9th by La Frances Hui | Comments

Photo of the Day: Golden Fields in Japan

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The sun sets on a field in Nakayama, Japan on February 26, 2012. (Jan Karlo Camero /Flickr)

February 28th by Stella Guan | Comments

Gallup: Americans Like China Less Now Than They Did a Year Ago

(Flickr/Brent Finnegan)

Lifestyle

Several Asian nations held up the rear of a Gallup poll released yesterday measuring Americans' favorability toward foreign countries.

February 17th by Rebecca Chao | Comments