Art & Culture

 Tokyo Weekender

• Lafcadio Hearn, the Greek-Irish Writer Who Introduced Japan to the World

• The Rashomon Effect: In a Grove at 100 Years Old

• Tetsuya Ishida: A Despairing Retrospective

• Microsoft’s Dream of Purchasing Nintendo Reveals Ugly Truth About the Video Game Industry

• Is Japan’s Soft Power at an All-time High?

• Naoki Higashida’s ‘The Reason I Jump’, A Decade in Translation

• Jazz Kissa: A Musical Culture Unique to Japan

• Steampunk: How a Victorian-Inspired Sub-genre Invaded Japan

• Exploring the Rise of Asexuality in Japanese Fiction

• Understanding Yayoi Kusama

• Lady Snowblood, Kill Bill and 50 Years of Vengeance

• Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai: The Gathering of 100 Supernatural Tales

• The Inland Sea Still Stands as One of the Greatest Books on Japan

Deeper Japan

• Japonisme 2.0: A Global Art Meta-Genre

• To Become Another: The Mask in Japanese Culture

• Poem and a Picture: Japanese Gardens as Reflections of the Natural World

• In Praise of Silence: Ancient Japan’s Relationship to the Absence of Noise

• Subtraction: The Art of Japanese Cooking

The Belfast Telegraph

• Welcome to the new Jazz Age: Why the music scene in NI is ‘the best we’ve ever had’

• Japanese artist Shiro Masuyama meets Belfast through art

• ‘If there’s one main challenge, it’s people thinking they have some kind of ownership over you’ – Cosplayer on her online fame

• Belfast-born photographer Philip Arneill’s latest project is snapping Tokyo jazz bars

The Japan Times

• ‘Once' comes to Tokyo speaking the universal languages of music and love

• ‘The Outsider' brings out colorful personality of one of history’s great Japanophiles

• Memories, melancholy and all that jazz

Others

• Art collective behind some of the world’s most popular museums unveils new project

• Entertaining the Gods: Kagura Theater in Shimane

• To Understand Japanese Cuisine, Start With Kaiseki and Shojin Ryori