Art
Springroove
US hip-hop on the wane in Japan?
The Pogues
Turning Tokyo into a dirty old town
Orbital
The Hartnoll bros’ second coming
Art Fair Tokyo
Find your own way at this feast of variety
3 Butoh Dimensions
An interpretative trio in the mutable genre
A Different Kind of Truth
Van Halen back at the top of their game
Gabez
Silent comedy gets the Tokyo treatment
Punkspring
The bands that launched a million moshpits
Roppongi Art Night
Nocturnal art rampage
Sumidagawa Parade
Rejuvenating the old downtown shitamachi
A Magic Flute
Highly acclaimed, stripped-down version of the Mozart opera
The Crane Maiden
English Royal Ballet director turns his hand to Japanese folk tale
Makyo Album Release
Not just pressing play on a laptop
Chen Man: Glamorous Futurist
What the young Beijinger does when she's not shooting fashion
Boycott Rhythm Machine Versus Live 2012
Ryuichi Sakamoto heads up a musical Celebrity Death Match
Rodchenko: Innovator of Russian Avant-Garde
A look at the influential graphic artist
Voices for Nature
Titans of Hawaiian music
Low End Theory Japan 2012
LA bass boys drop da bomb on Tokyo
Dubstep Warz 2012
Featuring UK innovators Pinch and V.I.V.E.K.
Home, Revisited
Ideas of house and home
Shuichi Hidano
The taiko virtuoso is banging the drums of change
Heading Home
Ichiro leads the Mariners back to Japan
Ken Ishii
Out of the dark and into the daylight for Japan’s biggest techno DJ
Jackson Pollock
The first major Japan exhibition of the abstract superstar
Ami Clarke: Be Seeing You
The Container presents the UK video provocateur
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
A rich tradition of Russian ballet in the Mediterranean principality
Atsuko Tanaka: The Art of Connecting
One of the key avant-garde Japanese artists remembered
Yabu No Naka
A new synthesis of tradition and innovation
Marilyn Manson
On the warpath with new LP Born Villain
Pina
Wim Wenders gives a masterclass in 3-D cinema art
UFC 144 Lightweight Title Match
New lightweight champ Henderson stands strong against Edgar
Judas Priest
Nippon Budokan, Feb 17
My Morning Jacket
They may be from Kentucky, but don’t call ‘em Southern rock
The Bee
Hideki Noda’s meditation on revenge returns home for an English run