Outsider art that comes from within
Source: Japan Times
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-20 09:59:29 -0700 | allnews
Outsider art is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene. Now, though, Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan, an exhibition on...
Outsider art that comes from within
Source: Japan Times
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-20 09:59:29 -0700 | allnews
Outsider art is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene. Now, though, Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan, an exhibition on...
Kyoto mixes fun for kids with antiquities
Source: The Daily Herald
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-18 07:38:04 -0700 | sports-news
With the Hozu River rushing in between, our oarsman swung the boat hard, threading the boulders as water splashed overboard and on to my 10-year-old daughter's lap. You never know how kids will react to new experiences, but not to...
Foreign-born professional strives to reconnect Japanese with koto music
Source: Japan Times
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-17 08:22:48 -0700 | entertainment-news
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case...
Veteran leadership makes Fukuoka favorite over Kyoto
Source: Japan Times
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-16 09:28:06 -0700 | sports-news
The Rizing Fukuoka and Kyoto Hannaryz renew their rivalry on Saturday in the Western Conference final at Ariake Colosseum...The winner will book a spot in the final for the first time, and face the Niigata Albirex BB-Yokohama B-Corsairs victor in...
Thaemlitz's mix tackles antidancing law
Source: Japan Times
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-15 09:40:46 -0700 | allnews
It's fitting that I should be meeting Terre Thaemlitz on May 1, International Workers' Day she wryly refers to herself as a feminist Marxist before we begin our interview in proper...Born in the United States, Thaemlitz has been based in...
Thaemlitz's mix tackles antidancing law
Source: Japan Times
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-15 09:40:46 -0700 | allnews
It's fitting that I should be meeting Terre Thaemlitz on May 1, International Workers' Day she wryly refers to herself as a feminist Marxist before we begin our interview in proper...Born in the United States, Thaemlitz has been based in...
Nash reflects on Toyama's success this season
Source: Japan Times
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-14 09:10:34 -0700 | sports-news
Toyama Grouses coach Bob Nash guided his team to its first winning season, and that's something the franchise, which began play in the fall of 2006, can consider a major accomplishment...The Grouses, who went 35-17 in Nash's first season at...
T Magazine: On Beauty | Bottled Secrets of the Geisha
Source: The New York Times
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-13 12:53:04 -0700 | entertainment-news
On Beauty Bottled Secrets of the Geisha The San Francisco-based skin care expert Victoria Tsai has built her business by studying the beauty secrets, passed down over generations, of the traditional Japanese entertainers known as geisha. After many trips east...
Nintendo wins appeals court ruling decision over Wii (Reuters)
Source: Xtra News
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-13 12:35:03 -0700 | technology-news
Nintendo Co, one of the world's largest makers of video game players, won a appeals court decision in a patent case that will allow it to keep importing its popular Wii system into the United States...Federal Circuit Court of Appeals...
Three "Abenomics-Proof" Investments
Source: Money Morning
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-13 04:56:58 -0700 | business-news
The Japanese Topix Index is up more than 40% this year (and nearly 71% since July 2012) thanks in large part to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's unlimited stimulus initiative known euphemistically as "Abenomics." The argument behind this spending is a...
Kyoto pulls off shocker in Game 1 of West semis
Source: Japan Times
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-11 10:34:33 -0700 | sports-news
The Kyoto Hannaryz stunned the host Ryukyu Golden Kings in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series on Saturday afternoon. The Hannaryz's 82-57 victory represents a big departure from their 0-4 record during the bj-league regular season against the...
Universities lure students with upscale dorms
Source: Japan Times
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-10 10:28:19 -0700 | political-news
Universities in Japan are doing everything they can to attract students amid the aging society and decline in young people. One approach to lure applicants is to provide dormitories with state-of-the-art facilities. Takushoku University opened a dormitory in April last...
Defending champion Ryukyu big favorite against Kyoto
Source: Japan Times
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-10 09:11:34 -0700 | sports-news
The Ryukyu Golden Kings are one of three bj-league franchises with two or more championships. But the other two the Osaka Evessa (three titles) and Hamamatsu Hiagshimikawa Phoenix (two) are not playing in the conference semifinal round of the playoffs....
Carbon market 'champions' undeterred: EU climate chief
Source: The Age
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-09 16:03:55 -0700 | green-news
Carbon-market supporters from China to California will push for emissions trading even as they prepare for the end of the United Nations Kyoto Protocol in seven years, Europe's top climate negotiator said. Nations including China and New Zealand and some...
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