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5 By Rex Reed 1/17 7:45pm

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From The Withered Tree, Flowers of War Bloom

In the dark history of human atrocity, one savage, inhuman chapter that is always missing from the textbooks in courses about the Pacific conflict in World War II is the Rape of Nanking. Except for the occasional documentary, this harrowing event has gone largely unexplored by filmmakers, yet it surges with historic value and the elements of heartbreaking drama. Ask history majors about what the Japanese did to freedom-loving civilians to alter the world and all they know is Pearl Harbor, Bataan and the Death March. Now the great Chinese director Zhang Yimou has made a valiant and compassionate effort to enlighten the ignorant. The Flowers of War is his best film since Raise the Red Lantern. It is emotionally shattering. Read More

1 By Dan Duray 8/09/11 3:34pm

Galleries

"Scarlet" by Hideaki Kawashima

fordProject Will Host Japanese ‘Reflections’ This September

This September, fordProject will host a group exhibition showcasing three young Japanese artists, representatives of what the gallery believes to be an untapped contemporary market from that country. “Reflections” will feature paintings by young artists Hideaki Kawashima, Makiko Kudo and Toru Kuwakubo. Rachel Vancelette, the director who curated the show, is passionate about the Read More

By The Editors 3/22/11 11:29pm

Editorial

Indian Point: Too Close for Comfort?

The nuclear crisis in Japan remains worrisome at best, scary at worst. Perhaps the most frightening development for New Yorkers is the size of the exclusion zone near the site. The United States believes it should be at least 50 miles inland from the stricken reactors, and has refused to allow U.S. military personnel and Read More

By Sam Chandan 3/15/11 3:57pm

the lead indicator

The Economic Consequences of Japan’s Natural Disaster

In the aftermath of last week's earthquake and tsunami, Japan faces its most serious crisis in a generation. The terrible human toll is still being assessed; even as relief efforts accelerate, the estimate of lives lost have climbed from a few hundred in the hours after the flooding to projections surpassing 10,000. And while the Read More

By Esther Zuckerman 9/15/10 2:33am

The Conversation

Fashion Forward

Gothic Punk Lolita and Forest Girl might sound like characters out of a Twilight novel by Nabokov, but they're actually stars of a museum exhibition. The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology's next elaborate show salutes groundbreaking Japanese fashion, from the 1980s to the present. About 100 outfits will go on view in the Read More

By Steve Cohen 7/30/08 11:46pm

Wasted Again: What Can We Do With All of That Garbage?

As summer heats up, our thoughts return to garbage--specifically New York City's garbage. As I've mentioned before, it would be hard to invent a more environmentally damaging, or more expensive system of waste management, than the one we use. To reiterate--in New York City we collect the garbage that residents place on the curb and Read More

By Chris Shott 1/15/08 8:43pm

Japanese Tourists Love New York A Little Less Each Year

A breakdown of the city's latest tourism estimates suggests that Britons (1.46 million), Canadians (880,000), and Germans (470,000) comprised the biggest crowds of international visitors to New York in 2007.

Numbers were up among all groups last year -- including the roughly 300,000 residents of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, weirdly categorized as "BeNeLux" -- Read More

By Staff 3/05/07 3:44pm

Small-Obsessed Firm Takes First Retail Lease At Big Times Tower

Japanese retailer Muji has signed the first retail lease at the future New York Times headquarters on Eighth Avenue. The retailer, with products supposedly based on a "philosophy of simplicity, minimalism and consumer functionality," has taken 5,000 square feet in the tower for its American flagship. The store, according to a release from Times tower Read More

By Staff 10/05/06 8:30am

Thursday: Global Warming! Mass Artist Exodus! ‘Primo’ Parade Views!

Herzog has prizes, no hair

  • The Must-Read of the Day is an angst-ridden NY Press interview with a graphic artist who's left Manhattan for Japan. Apparently our "artist-driven metropolis has slowly given way to the rising tide of the corporate imperative." Other social foibles (The Gap, Brooklyn SUVs, and Starbucks) may force all cool Manhattanites Read More
By Staff 6/09/06 11:00am

HRC Rival Sounds Like Bill

As part of our continuing, exhaustive (exhausting?) series on Mark Warner in New York, here's a write-up from Observer contributor Niall Stanage on an event that was covered by him and one Japanese reporter and, as far as Niall could tell, no one else: Addressing the annual dinner of the Japan Society at the Hilton Read More


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