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Japan

Book Review: “Neurotic Beauty”—Japanese Therapeutics

Berman finds a submerged psychic and cultural stratum in Japanese culture that might supply possible antidotes to the US’s consumerist and individualist fevers.

By: George Scialabba Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: George Scialabba, Japan, Morris Berman, Neurotic Beauty: An Outsider Looks at Japan

Visual Arts Review: At the Currier Museum of Art and the MFA — Bask in the Deadly Splendor of the Samurai

The time is short, but the opportunity rich via these two exhibitions, to bask in the military culture of old Japan, with all of its deadly splendor.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Currier Museum of Art, Japan, Lethal Beauty: Samurai Weapons and Armor, MFA, Samurai! Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection, Stan Sakai

Book Review: A Provocative Memoir about Growing up Gay in Japan

American readers will be intrigued by a language for sexuality that is plain but understated, neither vulgar nor coy.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Culture Vulture, Homoeroticism, Homosexual, Japan, japanese, Mutsuo Takahashi, translation, Twelve Views from the Distance

Book Review: Haruki Murakami — Marathon Storyteller

In his dozen or so works of international best-selling fiction, Haruki Murakami has created an alternate-reality Japan that is at once magical and familiar, dangerous and comfortable, foreign but Westernized.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: 1Q84, fiction-in-translation, Haruki-Murakami, Japan, Japanese-literature

Visual Arts: Going Beyond the Skin

This MFA exhibition displays some of the most intricate manifestations of tattoos in woodblock prints, leaving the viewer curious about its footprints in contemporary art and popular culture. By Yumi Araki Under the Skin: Tattoos in Japanese Prints is showing at the Museum of Fine Arts through January 2, 2011. As a cultural prelude to […]

By: Yumi Araki Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston, Japan, Museum of Fine Arts, Tattoos, Under the Skin, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Visual Arts, woodblock, Yumi Araki

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