Metropolis
Metropolis is Japan's No. 1 English magazine, covering the nation's culture, fashion, entertainment and lifestyle for both local residents and aficionados abroad.
Beans
A latte-literary salon
Nov 8, 2012
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on November 2012 Peeled persimmons drying [...]
The Nationalism of “The Small Difference”
Why Japan’s alienation will go on… and on
Jah Shaka
Word of Jah from the Zulu King
Beasts and Bourbon
All the turkey, trimmings and tipple you can handle in Tokyo
Nov 7, 2012
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on November 2012 Halloween on the [...]
Shinno-sai Festival
Celebrate the god of medicine at Osaka’s year-end festival
Alex Smoke
Techno pops on the Scot’s new outing
Woody Allen: A Documentary
An enigma we’re fortunate to have
388 Arletta Avenue
Better than most found-footage flicks
November 7, 2012
This week’s required reading
Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
Too inured to being visually fooled?
Chicken and Plums
French-Iranian drama, second-run theater, and Roman Porno
Nov 6, 2012
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on November 2012 Memories of the [...]
Halloween in Tokyo
Some random madness from last week
Kimono
Learn your threads... and get a dose of traditional Japanese comedy, too
Mex
No Tex in sight
Food For Thought
Feminism on the table
Makoto Aida
The new contemporary titan’s first one-man show
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Postmodern bluesman sells out in Japan
Otarudori wo Yobu Junbi
When a dancer’s body gives out
The Art of André S. Solidor AKA Elliot Erwitt
Veteran photographer lampoons contemporary art