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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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Rogers Cup 2016: Meniscus asks Yen-Hsun Lu about power players
Kwai ChanPosted on July 27, 2016 | No CommentsMeniscus Magazine asked Yen-Hsun Lu about his choice of shots against power players such as Alexander Zverev and 2016 Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonic. -
Spoken Word: Grady Hendrix’s “Summerland Lost: A Ghost Story in Progress” – 2016 Fantasia Film Festival
Paul KazeePosted on July 27, 2016 | No CommentsAmong the author's latest creations is a spoken word piece detailing the history of Spiritualism in the U.S., starting with the Fox sisters in 1848. -
The last hurrah for Tsukiji Fish Market & Ichiba Sushi?
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 24, 2016 | No CommentsWe look at photos of Tsukiji Fish Market and Ichiba Sushi (市場すし), with the future of both in doubt following a scheduled relocation in November 2016. -
“I, Olga Hepnarová” – 2016 Fantasia Film Review
Paul KazeePosted on July 23, 2016 | No CommentsNeither justifying or condemning her, "I, Olga Hepnarová" simply observes a lonely, alienated woman - the last woman to be executed in Czechoslovakia. -
Yoshihiro Nakamura’s “The Inerasable” – 2016 Fantasia Film Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 22, 2016 | No CommentsIn "The Inerasable," two-dimensional characters unpack a history of cursed real estate that does too little, too late to make the plot interesting. -
Agnieszka Smoczynska’s “The Lure” – 2016 Fantasia Film Review
Paul KazeePosted on July 20, 2016 | No CommentsIf you watch only one mermaid musical in your lifetime, please let it be "The Lure," which is pretty much the best movie in the world for its first half. -
Short Film Review: Grace Wang’s “The Trip”
Christopher BournePosted on July 20, 2016 | No CommentsA mother and daughter's weekend sojourn to a seaside town is the simple, yet emotionally rich and poignant storyline of Wang's lovely 17-minute short film. -
Private Policy Spring 2017 – New York Fashion Week Men’s
Megan LeePosted on July 18, 2016 | No CommentsThe mostly successful Private Policy Spring 2017 collection was inspired by a headline of forced slavery in the Southeast Asian fishing industry. -
Marcin Wrona’s “Demon” – 2016 Fantasia Film Review
Paul KazeePosted on July 17, 2016 | No CommentsWith roots in the Jewish myth of the Dybbuk, the ghost who clings to a human victim in "Demon" is of a young Jewish woman who vanished during World War II. -
“The Projects” (“Danchi”) – 2016 Japan Cuts Film Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 17, 2016 | No CommentsAn elderly couple learns that the residents of a nondescript public housing complex are not what they seem in this offbeat gem directed and written by Junji Sakamoto.