Culture
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
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