Thursday, May 25 2006
Breaking News in Japan
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.
Friday, March 31 2006
Meditations on the Festival of Mediations
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.
Tuesday, January 24 2006
A Change in Seasons (Greetings)
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.
Tuesday, November 22 2005
RedWebPop
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.
Friday, September 23 2005
Cool Hand Koizumi?
Japan's PM, Junichiro Koizumi, is a master of those tricky steps in the political waltz.
Friday, July 29 2005
PinkDotPop
The 'fun' in fertility. Japan's unzipped, let it all hang out there approach to sex, er, 'fertilty'.
Wednesday, April 13 2005
ReDotFlow: J-Pop That Would Hit Anywhere
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 Anywhere
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 Anywhere
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.
Wednesday, February 16 2005
The Gist List: ReDotPop’s Most Memorable Moments, circa 2004 (part 3 of 3)
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.
