Dance Review | Contemporary Dance Showcase: Japan and Its Neighbors Scrutinized in Mirrors
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It remains safe to say that Japanese choreographers are not yet done milking the repressed-chaos theme.
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Wednesdayâs performance of âWhat if Saori Had a Party?,â about dreams versus reality, is surprisingly intricate but more artful than engrossing.
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Visit Japan's top social-networking site, the 8-million-strong "Mixi," and you'll see prim, organized columns and boxes of stamp-size photos &#151; not the flashy text and teen-magazine-like layout of its American counterpart, MySpace.com. The difference in appearance between the two online hangouts reflects a broader clash of cultures &#151; and illustrates the challenge News Corp.'s MySpace faces as it jumps into the Japanese market.
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Tainted hot springs in at least 20 resort towns in Japan include several whose waters had been celebrated for centuries. The disclosures of fraud at the springs have stained one of the most precious rituals of Japanese culture -- group bathing.
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TOKYO -- On a recent business trip to Colorado, Japan's agriculture minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, popped into an inviting Japanese restaurant in the Denver suburbs with a hankering for a taste of back home. What he found instead was something he considered a high culinary crime -- sushi served on...
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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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Can modern dance survive and develop, many wondered early on, without a core syllabus like balletâs? The same question might be asked of Butoh.
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By reducing dancersâ movements to a crawl, a video installation sheds light on the little things.
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Suffering a crisis of confidence these days about its ability to compete with its emerging Asian rivals, Japan is in the midst of a growing craze for Indian education.
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Traditional expectations and conservative tastes in dance have contributed to an inhibited visual aesthetic.
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Sifting through the best that Japan has to offer.
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A number of recent pieces showed how dance can powerfully focus attention on the essentials: the body, movement, human existence in a mysterious and unknowable world.
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The West as seen through Japanese eyes, in an ambitious show at the Seattle Art Museum.
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envisioning a bigger role in global military cooperation and a better response to missile attacks. neighbours such as China -- where memories of Japan&#39;s past militarism run deep.
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Tycho:  Otherwise engaged on Wednesday, Tokyo had a head start on us - its powerful newsings daring to accrue, even as we were being sodomized at the border crossing.  Much of this content was indecipherable.  But we can still point and shriek, like when a monolith descends.
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In the past year dance has finally carved out a space for itself online as dancers, choreographers and institutions embraced the Internet with video, blogs and new Web sites.
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The arrival of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the latest example of the diplomatic dance New York has performed through the ages with controversial visitors to the U.N.