Culture
Buck-Tick
Akasaka Blitz, Nov 23-24
Christmas Special Classics
Leningrad State Orchestra at the glistening Tokyo International Forum
Real Grooves Final
Tokyo techno legend Josh Child's swansong
Prints by William Blake
Poetry and Old Testament visions make a perfect holiday exhibition
Voices!
1980s UK hip-hop photographer
DJ Krush
20 years on and still searching
New Era of Tokyo Fashion
An entertaining show tries to reboot Japan’s lost fashion edge
Special Charity Fetish Party
Charity + fetish = nice combo
Masterpieces from the Ota
Woodblock printing's Greatest Hits
Anthrax
One of the original Big Four of thrash metal touts their new LP
On-U Sound 30th Special
“Disturbing the comfortable, comforting the disturbed.”
Boat Here, Boat
Kori’s meditation on motion and time, featuring four emerging dancers
Asuka Ito
The artist's sexual fantasies expressed as art
Ave Maria In Christmas
Get spiritual with St Petersburg Chamber Ensemble
Countercultural Kusama
Last weekend of this exhibition evoking 1960s NYC
Tamas Wells
In a broadband era, the Aussie musician/aid worker takes the slow route
My Japan
Hundreds of photos say what Japan means to you
Juan Carlos Lopez
Japan-based Cuban percussionist debuts first solo album this Monday
Natural Wine Festival: Festivin 2011
World music and hundreds of bottles to try this Sunday
Plaid
The UK dance duo moves the mind and the booty
Aerosmith
Supergroup's two-week Japan tour comes with a new edition of Rocks
Masaharu Sato
Analog and digital become one
The Lake
Yoshimoto's latest work lies more in the margins than the center
Children of Bodom
Death metal band with some unlikely covers
Uhnellys
Japan's most unusual duo—by process of elimination
The Big Pink
Sampled by Niki Minaj, blogged by Kanye West… and tied up in Osaka
Gumudamudomudomu Crewimuburnny
Gender fantasy exploration by contemporary dance troupe
Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood
Axeman and frontman par excellence back in Japan
Miya Ando Exhibition
Swordsmith-influenced memorial art
Montreux Jazz Festival
Switzerland’s hallowed festival comes to Kawasaki
Whitesnake
Akasaka Blitz, Oct 24
Womb Adventure
Mega DJ Luciano headlines the big barn rave at Makuhari
Coma-chi
The soul singer dares to dream of a different Japan
Eonnagata
A dance-theater hybrid based on a transgender spy