Filmmaker Interview: Departures’ Yojiro Takita “The audience may feel their death through other’s lives.” Cultural News, 2009 June Issue The 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Departures (Okuribito), directed by Yojiro Takita, now opens nationally. For theater information, check www.departures-themovie.com. An interview with Mr. Takita is following: Where did you get the inspiration […]
Cultural News, February 2009 Issue By Takeshi Nakayama and Shige Higashi Dr. Takeo Uesugi, professor emeritus of landscape architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to the Design of Japanese Gardens Outside Japan on Saturday, March 28, 2009, at the Long Beach Hilton Hotel during the International […]
Fall Exhibition, They Swim, Fly, Wiggle, Walk, or Slither: The Hidden Code of Animals in Japanese Art at The Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture, 15770 Tenth Ave., Hanford, CA 93230, (559) 582-4915, www.ccjac.org The exhibition will run from September 2 through November 15, 2008. The carp, a widespread freshwater fish originally from Eurasia, […]
Cultural News 2008 June Issue Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Age of Imagination: Japanese Art, 1615 – 1868, from the Price Collection Jun. 22 – Sept. 4, 2008 By Meher McArthur As they prepare for the upcoming exhibition of their Japanese painting collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Joe […]
Cultural News 2008 April Issue Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Age of Imagination: Japanese Art, 1615 – 1868, from the Price Collection Jun. 22 – Sept. 4, 2008 The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents The Age of Imagination: Japanese Art, 1615-1868, from the Price Collection, featuring more than 100 of […]
Cultural News, 2008 January By Albert Brown WASHINGTON, D.C. – On November 7, 2007, the Japan Information & Culture Center of the Embassy of Japan had the pleasure of hosting former Kyodo News Washington Bureau Chief Fumio Matsuo. Mr. Matsuo discussed the English language version of his book, Democracy with a Gun: America and the […]
Cultural News 2007 December Issue The Hana-no-Kai branch of the Seiha Wakayagi School in Tokyo, led by Mme. Hisami Wakayagi of South Pasadena, will present a “2008 New Year Celebration – Hana-no-Kai and Hisami Wakayagi Recital” on Saturday, January 19, at 12:40 p.m. at the Aratani/Japan America Theatre in the Little Tokyo district of Downtown […]
Cultural News 2007 September Issue Tokyo – Los Angeles-based Japanese classical dance master Hisami Wakayagi of Seiha Wakayagi School will perform the tragic piece “Shizuhataobi” at the National Theatre of Japan (aka Kokuritsu Gekijo), in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, on Sunday, October 7, as a part of the program of the Ryufu-kai biennale lead by renowned dance […]