Culture
2012 A&E Calendar
Mark your musical dates for the coming year
Sugizo
Time to move on, says the visual kei icon
UFC fights back
The mammoth mixed-martial arts lightweight title match is ready to hit Japan hard
Space Ibiza New Year
Get over the new year at Womb
Foo Fighters
Dave Grohl's rockers pump their new album
The Drawing Show
Korean director Jin Kyu Kim takes live painting to a new level
Dialog with Bach
Get a dose of the baroque
Toyz
Guerilla art exhibition/concert all-nighter in Asagaya
Nijinsky Gala
Vladimir Malakhov and the Tokyo Ballet in homage to the legendary Russian dancer
Irving Penn and Issey Miyake
Creative synergy remembered at Tokyo’s temple of style
Shinjin 10
Take in some strange dance before Die Pratze closes doors
Noh Masks and Costumes from the Mitsui Collection
Get into Noh, face first
Anya Komichi Ueno to Asakusa Underground Cruise
Tsuzuki tours the shabby eastern half of Tokyo
Gojira, Hoshano, Hikashu, Moretsu na Christmas
Consider celebrating Christmas the “violent” way
Ooooze x TRI-BUTE x Weekend Warriorz present Countdown 2011 to 2012
A trio of brash clubbing crews combine forces
Mariana Limited 003
Dave Twomey and Peter Van Hoesen in a mixed digital/analog set
St. Vincent
A certified indie-rock-tronica goddess
Hessle Audio Night
The latest in London beats
Fuzzy Groovers
One of the great ambient guitar works on the only sound system that can do it justice
Swan Lake Returns
St Petersburg’s Leningrad State Ballet on a 22nd tour of Japan
Icarus Falling: An Exhibition Lost
Begin to imagine a future history of art
Miracle of Nagasaki
Japan’s early persecuted Christians and the Nagasaki bombing linked in a prayer for peace