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Deco Dance: Take A Jazz-Age Spin With Japan's 'Modern Girl'
Deco Japan's moga want to trip the light fantastic with you. Pleasure seekers, late night revelry, and a glut of cosmopolitan glamour characterize Japan Society’s current exhibition, Deco Japan:...
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Japan House: An American Made, Distinctly Japanese Landmark
"Japan House" - Final 1969 design sketch by Junzo Yoshimura.Japan Society's building was selected as one of 40 New York City landmarks competing for restoration grants from American Express and the...
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Is Japan’s Demographic Dilemma The #1 Challenge For Economic Recovery?
Via.Although not in the spotlight as much as the U.S. economic recession or the European currency crisis, Japan’s economy is experiencing its own set of challenges. The recent shutdown of all nuclear...
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Restructuring Japan’s Infrastructure: A Sustainable Way Forward
Via.Last week we looked at challenges facing the Japanese economy in a global setting, especially the demographic dilemma unique to Japan. While there are many possible solutions to these challenges,...
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Sake Bouquet: Fragrance And Flavor Bloom From Two Basic Ingredients
Origins of Japan's "national brew". Via.Think about your favorite perfume or cologne. It isn’t just one note is it? Many different fragrances mix and blend into the the beautiful scent that is uniquely...
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Hope, Hard Work And Helping Hands Aid Ongoing Tohoku Recovery
Fisherman from a devastated village take to the seas again thanks to newly purchased machinery. In a small town that lost ten percent of its population, folks now have professionals to help them...
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JAPAN CUTS 2012: From Mainstream Mania And Genre Benders To A Post-3/11 Era
Join the Monsters Club that is JAPAN CUTS 2012. © 2011 GEEK PICTURES“This year’s JAPAN CUTS festival is so varied in its programming that it’s anti-thematic”, says Samuel Jamier, Japan Society’s senior...
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Tanabata Tutorial: 7 Ways To Wish Upon A Star
7 types of Star Festival Decorations. Via. According to an ancient legend, wishes come true during Tanabata, Japan's summer "Star Festival", which occurs every year on the seventh day of the seventh...
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Dots Mark The Spot: Yayoi Kusama’s Triumphant Return To NYC
Yayoi Kusama holds sway over all. Via. The Louis Vuitton store on Fifth Avenue has a new look. What appears to be strips of dot matrix snake skin sliced from a coiled, psychedelic cobra, curls around...
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No American Comparison For Japan's Leading Living Actor
Koji Yakusho. Photo by Kazuto Suetake.While our JAPAN CUTS roundup last week only touched on this weekend's mini-retrospective honoring living Japanese screen legend Koji Yakusho, today's New York...
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Japanese Language in Action: Summer Theater Workshop For High Schoolers
SPAC's Medea, performed at Japan Society in 2011. Photo by Takuma Uchida.When we think theater we think of bright costumes and big sets, flashy musical numbers, tear-jerking soliloquys, black box...
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JAPAN CUTS Goes Down With The 'Space Battleship'
Someone just found out JAPAN CUTS is about to end. Image © 2011 Monkey Town Productions / Women on the Edge Production Committee.As the sixth and largest ever JAPAN CUTS film festival heads into its...
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Japan’s 2012 Olympic Flips, Dips and Kicks
Japan's "samurai gymnast"Uchimura in flight. Via.Gymnastics played an important role in the evolution of postwar Japan, notes a recent New York Times magazine article profiling Kohei “Superman”...
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Nuclear-Free Plea Intensifies In 67th Anniversary of Atomic Bombings
Hiroshima, August 6, 2012. Via. The inscription on the cenotaph at Hiroshima’s Peace Park reads “Rest In Peace, for the error shall not be repeated.” Tens of thousands came to the park Tuesday on the...
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Destination JS: Macaron Edition
Destination JS explores the sites, shops, and eateries surrounding Japan Society.How many times have my friends and I argued over the difference between a macaroon and a macaron? More than once, but...
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Japan News Roundup: Daiichi Plant Leaking, No Japan in Presidential Debates,...
Via.• Nuclear News: Reuters reported that Fukushima’s Daiichi plant "may still be leaking radiation" into sea 19 months after it was crippled by the tsunami. Japan’s nuclear regulators say the...
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Japan News Roundup: Sandy & Fukushima Expose Nuclear Safety Losers, Japan's...
Via Discovery/Corbis. • Comparing causes of the three nuclear reactor shut-downs on the American upper East Coast during Hurricane Sandy to what happened at the Fukushima Daiichi after the 3-11...
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Silver Wind's 'Waves' Roll Back To Japan
Detail of Hōitsu's Waves courtesy of the Seikadō Bunko Art MuseumThe silver-leafed crown jewels of Japan Society’s critically acclaimed exhibition Silver Wind: The Arts of Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1828),...
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Japan News Roundup: Reaction to U.S. Elections, Slimming Sumo, Crab Hat Cats
Via.• The International Herald Tribune reported "relief and hope" spread over Asia with Obama's victory in the U.S. presidential election. The story was highlighted with the photo (above) of U.S....
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