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Translating Ryan Holmberg

An illustrated interview with SAIC's self-deprecating translator with(out) talent.

Trusting Tradition: Pasteboard’s Glitter” Will Never Grow Old

Nicholas Lykoudis waxes lyrical about Japanese shoegaze band Pasteboard's long-unsung 2005 masterpiece, "Glitter."

SAIC Beat, S03E02 – Two Lies & A Truth: Brontë Mansfield

One story is true, and the other two are fabrications. Your hosts must guess...

Uncomfortable Truths

Sam Heaps discusses a two-day symposium regarding "comfort women" jointly held by five SAIC student groups.

“God Bless Baseball” Addresses Korean, Japanese, US Relations

Toshiki Okada's play at MCA: Stage uses baseball to walk through the complexity of identity in Japan and Korea.

Five Japanese Cats to Follow on Instagram

Our resident ailurophile shares her top picks, in honor of Japanese Cat Day.

Beyond Angry Girls and Punk Lyrics

Yoshitomo Nara: Drawings, 1984–2013 shows a previously under-examined aspect of the prolific Japanese artist's work.

Gurafiku: Japanese Graphic Design

Ryan Hageman investigates communication at the intersections of language and culture through both his work as a graphic designer and Gurafiku, his website dedicated to collecting examples of Japanese graphic design history from the 1800s to today. The ongoing research project aims to remove the linguistic barriers that keep international audiences from a rich vein of visual culture.

New Topographies

Police arrested and detained Tokyo-based artist Megumi Igarashi, who works under the name Rokudenashi-ko ("No-good girl"), on the accusation of selling the code that could be used to reproduce her own vagina with a 3D printer.

Screaming in Metalanguage

An interview with Avant-Garde Japanese Poetry Translator David Michael Ramirez II.

Gross, National, Cool

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, J-Pop, and Japan's "Cultural Odor."

Ten Years of Taiko

Tsukasa Taiko Shines in a fusion of tradition and experimentation at the MCA.

No Honor Among Yakuza

Takeshi Kitano’s "Sonatine" and a brief history of Japanese gangster films

Film Review: "Like Father, Like Son"

Too much salt in your popcorn? No, those are just your tears.

Does Anyone Else Feel Coke?

Japanese Pop-musican Daisuke Inoue implores you to feel Coke.