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Articles tagged "redotpop" Column: ReDotPopBreaking News in Japanby tjm Holden[25.May.06] :. Athletes such as Japanese slugger Hideki Matsui prop up the national psyche at a time when youth crime, economic decline, and political dysfunction are at their highest.  Column: ReDotPopMeditations on the Festival of Mediationsby tjm Holden[31.Mar.06] :. The Japan Media Arts Festival succeeded in capturing the bedlam of multiplicities, the noise of creative expression, the messy complexity of negotiated meaning that is Art. Column: ReDotPopA Change in Seasons (Greetings)by tjm Holden[24.Jan.06] :. He wants to stay in your good graces, so Holden and his family (yes! the whole family, for including close relations in this complicated, frenzied relations ritual are important!) send their nenga jou to you. All the way from the land of ReDotPop.  Column: ReDotPopRedWebPopby tjm Holden[22.Nov.05] :. On-line suicide clubs, pornographic blogs, lethal chat rooms, and killer confessionals: Japan's webbed world is often a murky realm where the psychologically meek meet the morally interrupted. A peek inside ReDot's weird wild web.  Column: ReDotPopCool Hand Koizumi?by tjm Holden[23.Sep.05] :. Japan's PM, Junichiro Koizumi, is a master of those tricky steps in the political waltz.  Column: ReDotPopPinkDotPopby tjm Holden[29.Jul.05] :. The 'fun' in fertility. Japan's unzipped, let it all hang out there approach to sex, er, 'fertilty'. ReDotFlow: J-Pop That Would Hit Anywhereby tjmHolden[13.Apr.05] :. ReDotFlow has been expressed through greater interactions and collaborations between countries; record and entertainment companies, producers, singers and musicians on both ends of the Asian region. Holden provides an in-depth look at how music from Japan spans pop culture boundaries. ReDotFlow: J-Pop That Would Hit Anywhereby tjmHolden[13.Apr.05] :. ReDotFlow has been expressed through greater interactions and collaborations between countries; record and entertainment companies, producers, singers and musicians on both ends of the Asian region. Holden provides an in-depth look at how music from Japan spans pop culture boundaries. ReDotFlow: J-Pop That Would Hit Anywhereby tjmHolden[13.Apr.05] :. ReDotFlow has been expressed through greater interactions and collaborations between countries; record and entertainment companies, producers, singers and musicians on both ends of the Asian region. Holden provides an in-depth look at how music from Japan spans pop culture boundaries. The Gist List: ReDotPop’s Most Memorable Moments, circa 2004 (part 3 of 3)by tjmHolden[16.Feb.05] :. It is perhaps the biggest story of ReDotPop 2004: baseball came to Sendai, bringing with it a dramatic strike between management and the players that struck at the very core of Japanese identity. The strike itself was so typically Japanese: the players continued to play weekday games -- so as not to inconvenience the fans too greatly -- and only suspended play on the weekends; and the fans became deeply embroiled in the matter. Holden wraps up his reflection on life in Japan, 2004, with this quintessential example of what it means to be Japanese in these times. The Gist List: ReDotPop’s Most Memorable Moments, circa 2004 (part 2 of 3)by tjmHolden[9.Feb.05] :. Neighborly relations, intimacies among relations, relating, long-distance... a look at life in Japan, 2004, continues with stories of a resiliant abductee, a consummate baseball player, players in the film industry, and of course, members (of varying merit) in the Royal Family. The Gist List: ReDotPop’s Most Memorable Moments Moments, circa 2004 (part 1 of 3)by tjmHolden[2.Feb.05] :. New Years' celebrations in Japan can get pretty roudy, as anyone who has suffered asphyxiation by rice cake would tell you - if they were alive to tell. Like New Years' celebrations the world over, the occasion calls for reflection on the year just passed. Holden looks back on 2004 in ReDotPop land with tongue-in-cheek. This is the first of three installments. ReDotBlueDotPop: At Home, Awayby tjmHolden[29.Sep.04] :. Holden takes a two-hour plane ride from Tokyo to Seoul and finds himself in a completely different, yet paradoxically very similar world of Japanese and Korean pop culture. The Trials and Tribulations of Parenting Adolescent Techiesby tjmHolden[26.May.04] :. ReDotPop faces tech-savvy, consumer-primed, expensive adolescence in the form of teenaged cell phone users. Holden wavers between pride and panic as his offspring dabble in art via on-screen decals, and explore a range of music via ring options. Can Pop Last Forever?by tjmHolden[31.Mar.04] :. Is pop as ephemeral as a cherry blossom... like youth, so quick to burst with beauty and excitement, so quick to fade? Or is it a perpetually regenerating force, like the magnificent and tenacious sakura that hosts the blossom? WhiteDotPopby tjmHolden[28.Jan.04] :. Japan is so much more than simply a handful of groups characterized by crystal-clear definitions and cut-and-dried allegiances: male, female; 'enka', rock; wheat tea, Coca-Cola; 'kimono', blue jeans. DeaDotPop?by tjmHolden[19.Nov.03] :. ReDotPop -- A Concept Due Its Title -- It is a sniff-the-breeze, taste-the-frisky-freshness-of-freedom problem that has no Japanese word to describe it. DeaDotPop?by tjmHolden[24.Sep.03] :. It wasn't until I disembarked in Narita, with my bottle of French brandy and Eiffel Tower mug and Polish soccer scarf and amber bracelet from the darkest Slavic forests, that I reentered the world of the living. SMAP: The Story of Everythingby tjmHolden[20.Aug.03] :. It wouldn't be far-fetched to venture that SMAP is a cultural institution, a cottage industry, and a magical commodity that works tirelessly to beget more commodities. Spy-day Night at the Fightsby tjmHolden[28.May.03] :. So much of Japanese TV these days appears predicated on this harsh formula: spying, confrontation, setting up and exposing the cads, giving them their due, then watching them twist and turn in the turbulent wind. The Great Waveby tjmHolden[5.Feb.03] :. The false notion that culture exported worldwide is an American invention has been swept into the historical soup of misconception, along with famous fallacies such as Aryan supremacy and the glories of Stalinism or Maoism. The Noble Sararimanby tjmHolden[6.Nov.02] :. He was a dupe, a fool, a brainless, clueless buffoon who'd been sold a bag of goods, and willingly sacrificed everything to gain nothing in a world that had quickly gone to garbage. The Schizophrenic Collide-a-Scopeby tjmHolden[4.Sep.02] :. Commercials not only serve as the sort of national archives for domestic events and values -- the town crier, if you will -- but advertising is one of the ways that popular culture actually manages to persist. In the Main It’s More Than the Maneby tjmHolden[10.Jul.02] :. . . . (F)or all its post-war success, its unrivalled rise from the ashes, Japan views itself as the national equivalent of Charley Brown. Aware of What They Wear?by tjmHolden[23.Apr.02] :. 'Do you know,' I inquired in wonder, 'what that . . .' careful how I pointed my finger, 'um . . . means?' She followed the line of query to the tip of her extremis, mouthed the words written thereon, returned her eyes to my general direction, face reddening (possibly implicating her in the act of cognizance), and replied, 'No?' Consolidating Cultureby tjmHolden[13.Feb.02] :. In such creations one finds evidence of the Japanese people's 'innate propensity toward shrinking things'. Mediations of Japan: Japan’s Beat Generationby tjmHolden[19.Apr.01] :. ReDotPop -- Japan's Beat Generation. Mediations of Japan: Brought to you by Public Transportationby tjmHolden[7.Oct.00] :. ReDotPop -- Brought to you by Public Transportation. Mediations of Japan: Foodby tjmHolden[13.May.00] :. ReDotPop -- Food: With the duo endlessly crooning about crustaceans over radios, on variety shows, as backing in television commercials, through speakers in elevators and restaurants, via CD rentals, and in karaoke boxes, Puffy had Japan from Hiroshima to Hakodate singing the praises of scarfing shellfish along summer shorelines. |
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