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Editors’ Note
Here’s to 1,000 issues this week!
Show Japan’s Dream
Take in the Tokyo 1964 Olympics
Lotus Café
Hipsters beware in Omotesando
María Pagés
Dancing about architecture
Café 104.5
Succulent sound in Ochanomizu
Taicoclub ’13
A connoisseur’s selection of electro and post-rock acts
The Angel’s Share
Loach lightens up with a caper comedy
Through Japanese Eyes: Paris, 1900–1945
Seine daubings at the Bridgestone
Womb 13th Anniversary “Carnival Season”
Luck be damned
Screenin’ The Wheels
Expat filmmaker previews new doc about Japanese biker gangs
Revlon: Makin’ Up for 50
Getting older, but not aging
Enku’s Buddhas
Religion and art come together at the Tokyo National Museum
What Doesn’t Kill You
Bleeds authenticity to a fault
Action Drawing “Hero”
Korean non-verbal entertainment
Barney’s Version
Gets much right
Ted’s Last Supper
This pancake is my body, this latte is my blood
Hunter x Hunter: Hiro no Genei—Fantomu Ruju
Fresh from a 60-million book run
Enku’s Buddhas
Sculptures from Senkoji Temple and the Hida Region
Db-ll-Bass—Sound, Body, and Instrument
From musical instrument to dance partner
The Scene in ’13
A banner year of music beckons
Hikin’
Watch your withholding... Tax laws have changed
New Year’s Exhibition
Have an auspicious view of a block-printed Fuji
New Year’s Bites
Have an oishii oshogatsu
Les Misérables
Admirably ambitious and beautifully mounted
Hoopin’ in the Vids
Hulu Japan just signed a new content deal
Guns N’ Roses
Axl’s heritage act in a late-announced one-off gig
Milocrorze—A Love Story
Thought Japanese cinema had no spark left?
Coffee Geek is Café Chic
Coffee for the casual drinker, the fanatic and everything in between.
Tsubu Tsubu Café
Cereal killers
Q-Pot Café
Fashion and food, twice over
Tower Records Café
Squaring off with Starbucks
On/Off The Covers—Various Artists
J-pop from the ’80s and ’90s—in English
The Nationalism of “The Small Difference”
Why Japan’s alienation will go on… and on
The Art of André S. Solidor AKA Elliot Erwitt
Veteran photographer lampoons contemporary art