Japanese culture

The generally empty hallway leading to Alumni Hall's seventh-floor auditorium was filled Sunday with young children, college students, middle-aged parents and elderly women in wheelchairs. Dozens of Pitt students and Japanese families…

A blockchain-based company says it is looking to meet what it calls a growing demand for Japanese culture - by creating animation, music, games, and movies, as international interest in it grows. industry is growing. According to MINDOL…

Wes Anderson's new film "Isle of Dogs" is a critical darling, scoring 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.But the film elicits negative reactions for its portrayal of Japanese culture.An LA Times reviewer wrote about the…

Because you can take the woman out of Japan ... One by one, the 14-year-old girls land on a makeshift runway, a tiled floor in a simple building, where a unique fashion event takes place. Middle aged men sit cross legged, ooh, aahing. The…

Noriko Manabe, Associate Professor of Music Studies, teaches Japanese Popular Music, a specialty music studies course at Presser Hall on September 28. EVAN EASTERLING | NEWS FROM THE TEMPLE After several years of working in…

The sea of ​​trees½Now PlayingThe latest film from director Gus Van Sant, The sea of ​​trees, tells the story of Arthur Brennan (Matthew McConaughey), a man determined to kill himself in Aokigahara, Japan's famous “suicide forest”.…

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - When the staff of Japan House planned its first Matsuri festival last year to celebrate Japanese culture, they estimated the crowd could approach 1,000 people. Instead, between 3,000 and 4,000 showed up. This year, the…

By all that is good and decent in pop music, I should feel deeply offended.After all, it's not every day that you see a 29-year-old Canadian dare to sing in the language of my ancestors, a beautiful and noble language — which I barely speak…