CULTURE

A Masterful Film Adaptation of a Short Story by Murakami

Hidefumi Yoshida, Teaching Japan Through Tears

Nagisa Oshima, a Filmmaker in Search of Meaning

A Yakuza Film that Revitalised the Genre

Grieving in the Time of Fukushima

The Bible of Symbols and Ideograms

‘Living in Japan’, Japanese Architecture Under the Microscope

‘La voix sombre’, the Sound of the Departed

Yukio Mishima and the Acceptance of his Homosexuality in Post-War Japan

‘Okinawa Notes’, an Engaged Travel Journal

‘Plastic Love’, an Eternal Phenomena

Kishin Shinoyama, John and Yoko

Minyo Crusaders, an Audacious Blend of Traditional Songs and Latin Rhythms

Tatsuro Yamashita, King of City Pop

A Supermarket of Sound: Tower Records

Hidefumi Yoshida, Teaching Japan Through Tears

‘Okinawa Notes’, an Engaged Travel Journal

Prison, an Antidote to the Solitude Suffered by Elderly Women

‘The Spirit of Pleasure’, a Glimpse into Eroticism in Japan

A Face-to-Face Encounter with the Women of the Yakuza

An Anatomical Atlas of the 18th Century

American Visitors Depicted by Japanese Artists

‘Tales of Moonlight and Rain’, a Collection of Japanese Supernatural Stories

Fashionable Patterns in Japan from the Early 20th Century

‘Menko Boys’, Antwan Horfee’s Collection of Vintage Cards

Going Back to the Roots of Minimalism with Kyle Chayka

A Return to Nature According to Masanobu Fukuoka

Twelve Weeks to Find Your Ikigai

Roland Barthes and Japan

Charlotte Perriand and Japan