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Elvis comes back as a ghost in a noh theater play
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Elvis comes back as a ghost in a noh theater play
Theater Nohgaku is translating the traditional art form to English with original plays that center global cultural and historical figures.
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Poetry, history and performance entwine in Daisydoze’s immersive spectacle
Since 2018, Daisydoze has been creating site-specific theater productions that explore local history and memory like “Cat Town,” now showing in Shimokitazawa.
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What ADHD looks like when it gets ahold of a microphone
Instead of scripting jokes, Mike Paxman and Alex T Thomas, two comedians with ADHD, decided to lean into the way their brains work and let loose in an unscripted comedy show.
Hina Haruka, a member of the radical feminist theater troupe TremendousCircus, poses for a photo while wearing a Gothic Lolita dress on a street in Tokyo's Harajuku neighborhood.
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Sep 15, 2026
Japanese feminist theater troupe fights misogyny in ‘cute’ Gothic Lolita fashion
By Tomohiro Osaki
With Gothic Lolita dresses and confrontational performances, TremendousCircus gives survivors a stage to reclaim their voices.
The Saitama Performing Arts Theater is known for its Shakespeare productions and their Sainokuni Shakespeare Series, which cycles through all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays.
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Sep 5, 2026
A year of Lear: Four new stagings hone in on the tragedy’s timeless lessons
By Kris Kosaka
Four separate productions of “King Lear” in one year in Japan signal renewed interest in the Shakespeare play that hasn’t always been the first choice.
Koji Yamamoto (center) stars as steelworker Jerry Lukowski in the Japan-U.S co-production of “The Full Monty,” currently performing in Tokyo. The actor says learning the lines and working entirely in English “took a lot of focus.”
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Aug 26, 2026
‘The Full Monty’ comes to Japan to bare all and open minds
By Alyssa I. Smith
The English-language musical comedy starring Koji Yamamoto asks big questions about masculinity and vulnerability while loosening up local audiences.
Bunraku puppeteer Tamasuke Yoshida rehearses with Catalonian singer Maria Arnal for the upcoming performances of “Kinkakuji” in Tokyo.
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Aug 8, 2026
A Yukio Mishima stage adaptation pulls genre-bending strings
By Kris Kosaka
A cross-cultural collaboration mixing bunraku puppetry, kabuki and literature is creating a new take on Yukio Mishima’s novel.
Stephanie Zaharis, who plays Misa in “Death Note: The Musical,” performs at a media event in London to promote the show.
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Aug 1, 2026
‘Death Note’ musical eyes a London breakthrough
By Alicia Haddick
Producers hope the hit adaptation opens the door for more Japanese original musicals overseas.
Wes-P has millions of followers and his viral clips made him recognizable out of Japan.
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Jul 21, 2026
Can Japanese comedy get laughs in English? Yoshimoto Kogyo lets the jokes rip
By Alicia Haddick
A zany weekly comedy show in Tokyo and Osaka aimed at non-Japanese speakers tries to jump over language barriers.
The “Princess Mononoke” adaptation was created under Shochiku’s Super Kabuki initiative, a modern form of kabuki with more technology in staging and open to pop culture collaborations.
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Jul 9, 2026
‘Princess Mononoke’ comes alive in Super Kabuki staging
By Alicia Haddick
Kabuki, one of 今日吃瓜 oldest performing art forms, and Studio Ghibli seek modern resonance in an everchanging landscape for arts.

Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Japan works to shield Takaichi from any Xi snub at China summit
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 4.
Magnitude 5.7 quake injures dozens in central Japan
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake with its epicenter in Shizuoka Prefecture struck central Japan early Sunday, injuring dozens, shattering windows and disrupting train services, with no tsunami warning issued.
Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds
A survey showed that many families with children attending private high schools are struggling to pay expenses other than tuition.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
By Elizabeth Beattie

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