Tea Ceremony

Learn about the esoteric tea ritual in two placid settings

Fumio Nanjo

The Mori Art Museum Director talks Metabolism in this exclusive interview

Beat Circuit 2011

Tokyo gets the rare pleasure of an African music double header

Monsters & Rosa

The staged results of a year of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange

Kabuki-za Paintings

The lush decorative history of a national institution

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