Tokushima Prefecture

Glass Mask

Tsukikage, Maya, Masumi and Ayumi "When we act, we wear a very fragile, easily broken, glass-like mask. Maya's potential for acting is noticed by former actress Chigusa Tsukikage. The playwright considered the title role so...

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Financials Lead Advance in Asia

By KATE O'KEEFFE SINGAPORE -- Japan's Nikkei 225 was up 1.3%, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 1.5% higher, Korea's Kospi Composite up 1.4% and New Zealand's NZX-50 up 0.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shot up 2.1% Thursday, though...

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U.S. film puts spotlight on dolphin hunt in Japan

It has caused a stir overseas with its graphic coverage of dolphins being butchered in waters off a small town in western Japan, but the U.S. documentary "The Cove" has yet to gain a commercial releas...

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Kojima Reflects on Snatcher, Adventure Games

Hideo Kojima might be best known these days for Metal Gear Solid and his ability to heavily confuse gamers with his stories, but 20 years ago, he was just another schlub in the industry, working largely by himself and making...

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Nosigner at DesignTide

While checking out DesignTide yesterday, I quite enjoyed the booth for the AWA brand — that’s the collaboration between Nosigner and the Tokushima Wood & Bamboo Industrial Cooperative Society Confederation — with some new...

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It's big or bust in eyes of Japanese cinema

Now in its sixth year, the Japanese Eyes section of the Tokyo International Film Festival, has evolved from its beginnings as a showcase for the middle range of Japanese films — that is, ones not readily classifiable as...

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Wildlife returns to our well-kept woods

Our Afan Woodland Trust here in the Kurohime hills of Nagano Prefecture has entered into a joint project with the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Management at Uraga University to study woodland biodiversity and the results...

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Business › Panasonic, Toshiba post quarterly profits

Saturday 31st October, 04:00 AM JST TOKYO — Panasonic posted a quarterly profit for the first time in a year and narrowed its forecast for annual losses, helped by cost cuts and recovering demand for home electronics....

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No major breakthroughs on NKorea seen in multilateral Northeast Asian security discussions

SAN DIEGO - U.S. and North Korean officials wrapped up unofficial talks Tuesday with other northeast Asian countries about regional security, but with no reports of major breakthroughs. The two-day meeting in San Diego was...

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The Taste of Tea, a cute-beautiful movie about a quirky family

I just watched a movie called The Taste of Tea . The director is Katsuhito Ishii, and starring actors include Tadanobu Asano from Ichi the Killer and Rinko Kikuchi from Babel. It's about a quirky family living in rural Tochigi...

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