JR gestures
Dear Alice, Until recently I lived in Tokyo and commuted on the JR Chuo Sobu Line from Kameido Station. I made it a practice to ride in the last compartment of the train, just so I could enjoy the spectacle of the driver making those sincere hand gestures at each and every station. I've seen the same thing on other train and subway lines, so I'm sure there is a very good reason they do this. But w
Art therapy tours enliven dementia patients and their caregivers
In a quiet corner of the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, a small group of elderly dementia patients accompanied by relatives and caregivers gathered in December in front of a work by French avant-garde painter Pierre Bonnard. Yoko Hayashi, representative director of Arts Alive, the organizer of the event, served as guide and moderator to help stimulate conversation among the group. "What
『シンプルな英語で話す日本史』『シンプルな英語で話すアメリカ史』同時発売！
『シンプルな英語で話す日本史』『シンプルな英語で話すアメリカ史』同時発売！【英日対訳・音声付き】歴史を英語で語ろう☆ 株式会社ジャパンタイムズ（本社：東京都港区、代表取締役：堤丈晴）は、英語で歴史上の重要な出来事を学び直し、知識を深めながら英語話者と歴史について話せるようになるための学習書『シンプルな英語で話す日本史』『同・アメリカ史』を同時発売しました。 本シリーズでは日本とアメリカ、それぞれの歴史的変遷について、英語を使う外国人に通じやすい、シンプルな英語で解説しており、歴史上の出来事を時系列で捉えながら新しい語句や表現を習得することができます。日本史全100ユニット、アメリカ史全90ユニットには日本語の対訳がついているだけでなく、難度の高い語句には文法と歴史背景、両方の解説も掲載。歴史を英語で読み、聞き、復唱することでしっかり学べる構成になっています。 世界は多種多様な文化圏から成り
Taking vocal software beyond Miku
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Haioka wants to represent Japanese style at RBMA
By his own admission, Shintaro Haioka was a late bloomer. The 32-year-old producer, one of only two Japanese artists taking part in the upcoming Red Bull Music Academy Tokyo, says he was an avid music fan as a teenager — but a lousy musician. "I'm completely tone-deaf," he says. "I don't have any sense of rhythm and I'm a terrible dancer. I'm too embarrassed to go to karaoke, even." Only after dis
YMO's Yukihiro Takahashi recruits Towa Tei, Cornelius, Yoshinori Sunahara, Tomohiko Gondo and Leo Imai for an impressive supergroup
YMO's Yukihiro Takahashi recruits Towa Tei, Cornelius, Yoshinori Sunahara, Tomohiko Gondo and Leo Imai for an impressive supergroup Gaining perspective: Musician Yukihiro Takahashi, who has performed in some of Japan's most influential bands, has drawn on a variety of musical influences on his latest albums, 'Techno Recital' and 'Phase.' | JAMES HADFIELD One of the unspoken rules in the progress-f
Leftfield J-pop, '70s influenced rock and shadowy R&B: Our favorite albums of 2014 (so far)
In his Strange Boutique column last week, Ian Martin wrote about the need for a canon in Japanese music in order for newcomers to the scene — especially those writing about it — to gain some context into what is being released. Without a canon, non-Japanese journalists who write about Japanese musicians can fall into the trap of labeling a group such as Babymetal "whacky," when there are much deep
NSA asked Japan to tap regionwide fiber-optic cables in 2011
The U.S. National Security Agency sought the Japanese government's cooperation in 2011 over wiretapping fiber-optic cables carrying phone and Internet data across the Asia-Pacific region, but the request was rejected, sources said Saturday. The agency's overture was apparently aimed at gathering information on China given that Japan is at the heart of optical cables that connect various parts of t
Silence is a virtue for Tokyo's Flau
Back when he still worked as a speech therapist and audiologist, Yasuhiko Fukuzono used to observe an interesting phenomenon. When deaf patients were fitted out with hearing aids for the first time, they complained that everything was just noise. "Even when they were at home, not doing anything, it was still noisy," he says. "You know what it was? It was the sound of the fridge. We don't even noti
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