Art
Chez Damier
Chicago’s spacier take on house
Tokyo Photo 2011
The UK's Chris Shaw features among the annual snap fest
Tokyo Jazz 2011
Tokyo International Forum, Sep 2-4
Bavarian State Opera
Operatic panorama from the Deutsch masters
Matthew Herbert
Porcine musical odyssey
Freaks Village
Daytime carnage for the adult raver
Tokyo Rittai Zukan
Take in Makotocluv's 3-D Tokyo picture book
Roska
The British bass boy makes his Japan debut
Design Makes You Happy!?
Well does it?
Taro Okamoto
The second part of the 100th anniversary show honors the legacy of an artistic phenomenon
Blue Mind
It’s about finding your inner Blue Man, says Tokyo show’s Callum Grant
Sebadoh
Get your dose of '90s indie rock
Yamato
Taiko veterans Yamato play their latest show
Sander van Doorn
Dutch producer spearheads trance's second coming
Transfiguration
Berlin-based Leiko Ikemura's first retrospective in Japan
Womb Cruise
Turkish techno against Yokohama’s illuminated waterfront
Bad Noise! Fes 2011
A posse of Japan's better indie bands
Power Spots of Edo
A visual tour of Edo-era spiritual destinations
Prefuse 73
The instrumental hip-hop guru fronts this year’s Neutral Nation
Artists for Tohoku
Art and music auction for Tohoku
Art Scope 2009-2011: Invisible Memories
The fruit of a collaboration between young German and Japanese artists
Boris/Envy/Mono
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2011 Three of Japan’s [...]
Latin Beat Film Festival
Shinjuku's annual bevy of Latin film
Wire
Takkyu Ishino's famous rave brings the best of Berlin, among other lunacies
Rafven
The Swedish gypsy punk collective push their new album
Hugo Fattoruso
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on August 2011 Though not as [...]
Jazz Art Sengawa
Cellist Hiromichi Sakamoto and Japan’s avant-garde build a home of their own
Tokyo Metabolizing
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on August 2011 In the 1950s, [...]
A Geek in Japan
Put some skimmed geek on your coffee table
Hatsune Miku
Fans take the control panel with this holographic superstar
Orphans & Heroes
Stylish singer and Pride promoter Lenne Hardt hosts a gala benefit
Just Two Dances
Issues of identity and ethnicity in two works set for the intimate Aoyama Round Theater
Earth Celebration 2011
Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Aug 19-21
Sonicmania
Makuhari Messe, August 12