CULTURE

‘The Heike Story’, An Animated Medieval Epic

‘Drive My Car’, Relationships and Grief

‘The Moon Has Risen’, Post-War Sisterhood

The Minamata Health Disaster, from Dancing Cats to Johnny Depp

‘Shoplifters’, Imagining Love

The Moon and the Printing Masters

‘Abandoning a Cat’, a Tribute to a Father

Lupin III, the Pop Culture Icon Created by Monkey Punch

‘The Night Parade of 100 Demons’, a Folkloric Bestiary

‘Tokyo Redux’, a Drama in Three Acts

Five G Music Technology: Tokyo’s Analog Synth Emporium

Dub Store, Japan’s Reggae Emporium

Kitaro, Exponent of the New Age

‘Japanoise – Extremism and Entropy’, the Sound of Noise

Arca and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s ‘Sanctuary’, an Unexpected Utopia

The Minamata Health Disaster, from Dancing Cats to Johnny Depp

How Lily Deakin Rediscovered the Carefree Spirit of Childhood Through Pole Dancing

‘Me and the Cult Leader’, an Account About the Aum Sect Told Through Film

The Statue of Hachiko, a Symbol of Loyalty to Humans

‘The Prostitute’, Helplessness in Squalor

‘The Night Parade of 100 Demons’, a Folkloric Bestiary

Traces of Samurai, from Engravings to Pop Culture

Gazing at the Moon During ‘O-tsukimi’

‘Kokoro’, Harmony Between the Heart and Mind

‘The Beauty of Boundaries’, the Japanese Aesthetic of Limits

Kodo Nishimura, or How Buddhism Is Supporting the LGBTQ+ Community

When Nikko Inspired Paul Claudel

Japan as Read and Dreamt About by Emilie Papatheodorou

Anticipating Fashion, the Vision of Tetsuya Okada

Japan, the Country of Suicide?