Articles tagged "japan"

Books Review

Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater by Eric P. Nash

by Oliver Ho

[21.Oct.09] :. Nash offers a study of kamishibai's influence on modern manga, and how Japanese comics differ from American ones (as well as answering a common question: "What's with the wide eyes?").

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Column: Read Only Memory

Looking for the Lost: Memoirs of a Vanishing Japan

by Michael Antman

[16.Oct.09] :. With its narrow streets and dark and hidden infoldings, there’s a distinctly feminine, mysterious, and inexplicably magnetic aspect to Japan that exists in few other places in the world.

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TV Review

Independent Lens: Wings of Defeat

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.May.09] :. Wings of Defeat shows that, then and now, the kamikaze pilots were complicated and diverse individuals, not stereotypical fanatics.

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Books Review

One Morning Like a Bird by Andrew Miller

by David Pullar

[17.Feb.09] :. The writers' reflections on Japanese identity are never undertaken in isolation from the world -- they are informed by a strong awareness of the world beyond their islands.

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Column: ReDotPop

In a Groove, in a Grove

by tjmHolden

[6.Nov.08] :. Even in the dead of summer when a cacophony of cicadas clinging to the limbs assail the ears, the visitor caught in the grove cannot help but be sucked into the mystical vortex.

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Music Review

Nagisa Ni Te: Yosuga

by Deanne Sole

[22.Sep.08] :. It’s a fairly pretty album. It’s quite nice.

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The Graphic Report: Summer Edition

by Chris Barsanti

[11.Aug.08] :. And so, on to looking at what's worth reading, graphic novel-speaking, before fall comes calling.

 

Discovered ‘Genji’ sets offer avenues for interpretation

by Tomoko Nishida and Shinya Machida [The Yomiuri Shimbun (MCT)]

[6.Aug.08] :. OSAKA, Japan - Two recently discovered full 54-chapter sets of “The Tale of Genji” are expected to open the door to new interpretations of the world’s oldest surviving full-length...

 

Japanese-style game shows are trying to win over American audiences

by Cary Darling [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[14.Jul.08] :. The Japanese have long been known for their torturous game shows that test not only physical endurance but sanity. Now this approach is finding a home on American TV. Why suffer the stolid...

 

Feeling of social stagnation brings a resurgence of popular song in Japan

by PopMatters Staff [Yomiuri Shimbun (MCT)]

[17.Jun.08] :. OSAKA, Japan - A Japanese hit single from the mid-1970s has become popular once again, 30 years after its original release. “Oyoge! Taiyaki-kun” (Swim! Taiyaki-kun) sold more than 4.5...

 

L’Arc~en~Ciel: Kiss

by Deanne Sole

[18.Feb.08] :. This is pop-rock pushed to a point of such lush and serious melodrama that it almost tips over into camp.

 

Various: Add to Friends

by Deanne Sole

[5.Oct.07] :. Like a sweet little ant that you don't want to step on.

 

Tenniscoats: Totemo Aimasho

by Deanne Sole

[5.Oct.07] :. A nice, soft, warm bowl of heart food

 

The Newspaper Equivalent of Iron Chef?

by Jillian Burt

[4.Oct.07] :. A new model for co-operative competition between newspapers in an online alliance.

 

Akiko Tsuruga: Sweet and Funky

by Robert R. Calder

[24.Aug.07] :. A young organist for Japan who swings for herself.

 

Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose by Kenneth B. Pyle

by Leonard Boasberg [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[16.Aug.07] :. The book is a penetrating survey of Japan from the 1868 Meiji Restoration to the present, an informative analysis of why the Japanese behave as they do.

 

Oreskaband: Oreskaband

by Deanne Sole

[27.Jul.07] :. As if half of Morning Musume had decided to pick up trombones and start covering Toots and the Maytals.