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This week marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most extraordinary songs to reach the top of the U.S. Billboard charts, a song named after a hot-pot dish that changed the perception of an entire nation for many, and set a bar that no other Asian act...
HONG KONG – Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze’s is a Cinderella story. The young French photographer is a self-taught photographer, buying his first DSLR camera just three years ago, shortly after finishing his studies in multimedia and graphic design.He arrived in Hong...
The South Korean embassy in Tokyo has just gotten a little more cultural flair. Compatriot artist Sang Nam Lee has unveiled a large-scale ceiling mural at the newly renovated embassy in the district of Minato-ku, the last step of three years of building...
“Sailor Moon,” a manga series by Naoko Takeuchi that debuted in 1991 and which soon became an all-time classic, producing spin-off anime, video games, and musicals, is set to return to the stage after an eight-year absence.The story of a team of teenage ‘...
It is the highest profile commission for a temporary structure in British architecture – the Serpentine Gallery pavilion, each year commissioned by the London institution to sit alongside its base in Kensington Gardens and designed by a globally famous...
TOKYO — Rei Kawakubo of COMME des GARÇONS has created an exclusive capsule collection for Converse, featuring the brand’s iconic, beady-eyed hearts plastered all over a range of Pro Leather sneakers.The new collection — Kawakubo’s third...
HONG KONG – If King of Pop Michael Jackson was an aerialist, how would he somersault in hits like “Smooth Criminal,” “Dangerous” and “Bad?”Montreal-based acrobatic theater company Cirque du Soleil may have the answer in “Michael Jackson the Immortal World...
TOKYO — Although Tokyo has always been home to a café culture all its own, it's worth bearing in mind that the average café in the Japanese capital is a foreign import that was brought over from Europe and the US many, many moons ago, along with...
TOKYO – The history of art in Japan seems almost inseparable from the country’s most iconic natural landmark – Mount Fuji. From Katsushika Hokusai’s “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji,” depicted in ukiyo-e woodblock prints, to recent pop-culture interpretations...
TOKYO — Renowned Chilean-born artist Alfredo Jaar, who has been coming to Japan for the past 25 years, recently returned to Tokyo to deliver a lecture and present three artworks at “All You Need is LOVE: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku”, a...
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May 17, 2013
