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Japan
Arts & Culture
Translating Ryan Holmberg
An illustrated interview with SAIC's self-deprecating translator with(out) talent.
Entertainment
Trusting Tradition: Pasteboard’s Glitter” Will Never Grow Old
Nicholas Lykoudis waxes lyrical about Japanese shoegaze band Pasteboard's long-unsung 2005 masterpiece, "Glitter."
Multimedia
SAIC Beat, S03E02 – Two Lies & A Truth: Brontë Mansfield
One story is true, and the other two are fabrications. Your hosts must guess...
SAIC
Uncomfortable Truths
Sam Heaps discusses a two-day symposium regarding "comfort women" jointly held by five SAIC student groups.
Arts & Culture
“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.
Entertainment
Five Japanese Cats to Follow on Instagram
Our resident ailurophile shares her top picks, in honor of Japanese Cat Day.
Arts & Culture
Beyond Angry Girls and Punk Lyrics
Yoshitomo Nara: Drawings, 1984–2013 shows a previously under-examined aspect of the prolific Japanese artist's work.
Uncategorized
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.
Arts & 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.
Arts & Culture
Screaming in Metalanguage
An interview with Avant-Garde Japanese Poetry Translator David Michael Ramirez II.
Arts & Culture
Ten Years of Taiko
Tsukasa Taiko Shines in a fusion of tradition and experimentation at the MCA.
Entertainment
No Honor Among Yakuza
Takeshi Kitano’s "Sonatine" and
a brief history of Japanese gangster films
Entertainment
Film Review: "Like Father, Like Son"
Too much salt in your popcorn? No, those are just your tears.
Entertainment
Does Anyone Else Feel Coke?
Japanese Pop-musican Daisuke Inoue implores you to feel Coke.