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Akita City “Kanto Matsuri” performance – 2024 Honolulu Festival
19 April 2025 7:57 AM | No CommentsThe Akita City Kanto Festival Executive Committee performed at the 2024 Honolulu Festival, showcasing music and pole-balancing stunts from its annual Kanto Matsuri.
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Petit Bateau Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
19 April 2025 5:39 AM | No CommentsWhy did a 132-year-old French casualwear brand, mostly focusing on children's fashion, decide to show at the Tokyo Fall/Winter 2025 collections?
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tiit tokyo Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
18 April 2025 9:30 PM | No CommentsAccording to the Rakuten Fashion Week TOKYO show notes, for the Fall/Winter 2025 season, the designers were "inspired by the Danish film "When Animals Dream.""
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Sumo: 73rd yokozuna Terunofuji retires, leaves lasting legacy
10 April 2025 11:57 AM | No CommentsThe Mongolian's calm, regal presence in the dohyo will certainly be missed, but there is no rest for the weary.
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Photos: Yousuke Haga – New York Fashion Week Fall 2025
24 March 2025 3:05 AM | No CommentsPhotos from the Yousuke Haga - Asia Fashion Collection runway show in New York.
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Featured Archive
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Mulberry Fall 2019 – Paris Fashion Week
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on September 7, 2019 | No CommentsCreative Director Johnny Coca may have been creating "building blocks for a modern British wardrobe," but truthfully, there's something for every woman in this collection. -
Josh Kline: “In Stock (Walmart Worker’s Head)” – Art Basel Hong Kong 2019
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on September 7, 2019 | No CommentsJosh Kline's work speaks to the perils of mass consumerism, frenzied capitalism and labor issues. -
KIMHEKIM Fall 2019 – Paris Fashion Week
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on September 6, 2019 | No CommentsAn ode to ego and self identity, the KIMHEKIM Fall/Winter 2019 collection - appropriately titled "me" - is loaded with references, textures and styles. -
*CLOSED* At Tokyo’s Sushi Bar Yasuda, a chef returns home
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on August 31, 2019 | No CommentsSemi-retirement for Naomichi Yasuda is a basement in Tokyo, working solo and serving his personal style of omakase. Does he care what you think? Maybe. -
Photos: Comic Con Honolulu 2019
Kwai ChanPosted on August 18, 2019 | No CommentsThe annual event took place from Aug. 2-4 at the Hawaii Convention Center. -
PyeongChang 2018: Halfpipe winner Chloe Kim in a class of her own
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on August 16, 2019 | No CommentsThe question was not whether Chloe Kim would win the women's snowboard halfpipe event at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but by how much. -
Minatogawa StateSide Town – Urasoe, Okinawa, Japan
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on June 29, 2019 | No CommentsIn this former military housing complex, rusty U.S. Mail boxes teeter beside cool boutiques, and American vintage goods spill off the shelves next door to uniquely Okinawan culinary creations. -
Photos: Shinnyo Lantern Floating Hawai’i 2019
Kwai ChanPosted on June 26, 2019 | No CommentsOn Memorial Day, some 7,000 lanterns floated along the Ala Moana Beach in a magnificent display to pay respects to the fallen and loved ones. -
Eifuku Shokudo (栄福食堂, “Tony Soba”) – Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on June 22, 2019 | No CommentsTony Soba serves some of the cheapest bowls of Yaeyama soba one can find in Okinawa, and doubles as an unabashed shrine to a forgotten actor. -
“The Key” – Tribeca Immersive 2019
Asya GorovitsPosted on June 16, 2019 | No CommentsWhat made "The Key" so popular amongst both the audience and the jury? An unexpected and somewhat controversial blend of fiction and documentary narratives.