Haruki Murakami may not have received this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, but he will probably win it before too long. It would be a shame, though, if Haruki Murakami becomes to Japanese literature what sushi is to Japanese cuisine – the single dominant icon that obscures all the other good stuff. Also worthy of […]
‘Machete’, Wald 9 Cinema Shinjuku, Tokyo
Yamatane Museum of Art’s new exhibition has just started. Its full title is ‘Establishing Modern Art in Japan: The Artists of the Nihon Bijutsuin, from Yokoyama Taikan to Hirayama Ikuo’. The exhibition includes paintings by artists active in the Meiji, Taisho, Showa and Heisei eras. Hoping that it will be as good as the Yamatane’s previous […]