Japanese puppeteer breathes new life into old art
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A puppet dressed in a kimono is brought  to life on stage in graceful, dream-like moves as three  puppeteers in full view of the audience maneuver her head, arms  and legs.
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âFabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitzâ is a modest yet powerfully affecting production that takes puppetry to impressive heights.
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Alain Corneau's psychodrama is the latest movie to explore (and to exploit) Western fascination with Japan.
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A popular hobby among devotees of anime and manga, cosplay -- costume combined with play -- pays tribute to fans' favorite characters.
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A lovely new show at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum introduces us to the full sweep of this Venetian artistâs career, from the early etchings of antiquities to his eccentric furniture designs.
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A curator of crowdsourced art talks about new media projects and how crowds produce and present art.
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KYOTO, Japan -- His fingers muscled from almost a century of weaving, Yasujiro Yamaguchi worked the humming loom in his private workshop. Patiently lacing golden threads through a warp of auburn silk, he fashioned a bolt of kimono fabric blooming with an autumn garden in shades of tea green, ginger, and plum.
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New York hosts the first major US exhibition of Shomei Tomatsu, Japan's most important postwar photographer.
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A Japanese archeological team has discovered three painted wooden coffins in Egypt, including two from the little-known Middle Kingdom period dating back more than 4,000 years.
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In high-tech Japan, an antiques dealer pioneers a new way to listen to digital music -- by piping the tunes through tube radios. Nobuyuki Hayashi reports from Tokyo.
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A weekly TV show mocking Japanese  politicians may seem a far cry from "The Great Dictator," but  comedian Hikari Ota says it was watching Charlie Chaplin's  masterpieces as a child that inspired his career.
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In the shadow of Tokyo tower at the heart of the Japanese capital, Masakazu Shirai walks down the stairs from his apartment to his workshop at 8 a.m. each day to begin work making tatami mats.
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Fans of Japan's distinctive style of full-length animated films gave a standing ovation at this year's Venice Film Festival to the latest movie from Japan's famed Studio Ghibli.
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In Japan, a 28,000-square-foot homage to the automaton begins the archiving of man's fascination with robots. Take a look at some of the specimens. By Brian Ashcraft from Wired magazine.
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It can greet people, show DVDs, and hand out balloons. Ubiko, a robot-on-wheels with a catlike face, is joining the crew of temporary workers supplied by a Japanese job-referral company to stores, events, and even weddings.
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Mr. Shimaoka was designated a âliving national treasureâ in Japan for his mastery of his craft.
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Pencil and paper are so last-century. New software developed by international researchers can create and manipulate 3-D models of ancient inscribed artifacts.