Publication: Japan Times

First Reported May 26 2012 - Updated May 26 2012 - 1 Documents

Toshiba supplies LEDs to Louvre

Toshiba Corp. is providing the Louvre with LED lights to illuminate some of its most renowned works of art, including Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa."Work to replace the French museum's lights is scheduled to be completed next May. The LED lights will ... [ Published May 26 2012 by Japan Times ]

Entities: Toshiba Corporation, Mona Lisa

First Reported May 26 2012 - Updated May 26 2012 - 1 Documents

Composer wins Austrian contest

A Japanese composition has won top prize in the orchestra category at a music competition organized by Wiener Konzerthaus concert hall in Austria, according to sources.Shoichi Yabuta, 28, from Hyogo Prefecture, won the contest with his piece "Anima," ... [ Published May 26 2012 by Japan Times ]

Entities: Hyogo Prefecture, Tokyo, Austria

First Reported May 26 2012 - Updated May 26 2012 - 1 Documents

Harley-Davidson Inc

Harley-Davidson Museum to display tsunami-hit hog found off British Columbia

NEW YORK — Harley-Davidson Motor Co. will display in its museum a motorcycle found last month on the shores of a western Canadian island and belonging to tsunami survivor Ikuo Yokoyama of Miyagi Prefecture."He requested that the Harley-Davidson Museum ... [ Published May 26 2012 by Japan Times ]

Entities: Harley-Davidson Inc, Milwaukee, Vancouver, Peter Mark, Miyagi Prefecture

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 23 2012 - 1 Documents

The shaping of a Post-Impressionist

Fruits of personal style (above): "Apples and Oranges" (ca.1899) MUSEE D'ORSAY, PARIS © RMN (MUSEE D'ORSAY)/HERVE LEWANDOWSKI, DISTRIBUTED BY AMFSpecial to The Japan TimesWhen the influential art critic Clement Greenberg described a particular painter ... [ Published May 23 2012 by Japan Times ]

Entities: Paul Cezanne, Paris, Aix-en-Provence (France)

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Jeff Hammond

"Uemura Shoen: Japanese Arts in Taisho Era — Struggle Between Tradition and Revolution"

"Uemura Shoen: Japanese Arts in Taisho Era — Struggle Between Tradition and Revolution"Shoen Uemura (1875-1949) was the first woman in the history of Japan to win the Order of Culture for her contribution to nihonga (Japanese painting). She is particularly ... [ Published May 23 2012 by Japan Times ]

Entities: Nara (Japan), Yang Guifei, Kintetsu Corp, Jeff Hammond

First Reported May 19 2012 - Updated May 19 2012 - 1 Documents

Noge

Artist creates Yokohama bodhisattvas

Eleven bodhisattvas stand in formation, their heads crowned and their almond-shaped eyes and faces dusted with gold.The scene could be a reenactment of a painting, or a sculpture in a Buddhist temple or museum. But it's not. It's a scene beheld one recent ... [ Published May 19 2012 by Japan Times ]

Entities: Noge, Yokohama, Bodhisattva, Kenji Suzuki

First Reported May 17 2012 - Updated May 17 2012 - 1 Documents

Kintetsu Corp

Dancer to honor late artist who balked at death

In remembrance of Arakawa: Dancer Min Tanaka (above) will perform at the Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro Park, in honor of the late artist Shusaku Arakawa (below). © DAIZABUROU HARADA; ABRF, INC.Shusaku Arakawa (1936-2010) was an enigmatic man. The ... [ Published May 17 2012 by Japan Times ]

Entities: Gifu Prefecture, Gifu, Kintetsu Corp, Nagoya

First Reported May 15 2012 - Updated May 15 2012 - 1 Documents

Book depicts Emperor's 1953 trip

Emperor Akihito, who leaves for Britain on Wednesday, was a keen traveler when he visited the country in 1953 to attend Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, according to a book published the following year.The then 19-year-old Crown Prince Akihito met with ... [ Published May 15 2012 by Japan Times ]

Entities: Emperor Akihito, Winston Churchill, Prince Takamatsu, Clement Attlee

First Reported May 10 2012 - Updated May 10 2012 - 1 Documents

Artist to mix sights, sounds

It's not quite a concert and it's not quite an exhibition. Australian multiartist Benjamin Skepper, however, hopes to combine those two concepts when he and his sound engineers put on a show of sound art at the Konno Hachiman Shrine in Shibuya on May ... [ Published May 10 2012 by Japan Times ]

Entities: Tokyo, Japan Earthquake & Tsunami, champagne, Architecture

First Reported May 09 2012 - Updated May 09 2012 - 1 Documents

Shakespeare's Globe hails a Japanese 'Coriolanus'

Chiten take on the bard: The Japanese theater company Chiten will perform "Coriolanus" on May 21 and 22 as part of the Globe to Globe festival at Shakespeare's London Globe. TSUKASA AOKISpecial to The Japan TimesLONDON — In fewer than 100 days time, ... [ Published May 09 2012 by Japan Times ]

Entities: London, Miura (Japan), List of Japan Societies

First Reported May 08 2012 - Updated May 08 2012 - 1 Documents

Little-seen movies get screen time at newly established Nagoya cafe

NAGOYA — A cafe that screens little-seen movies and offers a comfy environment to sip coffee opened last month in Nagoya's Naka Ward in a district once known for its abundance of movie theaters."We hope to show films acceptable for many age groups," said ... [ Published May 08 2012 by Japan Times ]

Entities: Nagoya, World War II, Coffee, Corroboration

First Reported May 07 2012 - Updated May 07 2012 - 1 Documents

Issey Miyake's innovations beat the Brits to win the Design Museum of London fashion award

Colloquially called "The Oscars of Design," the Design Museum of London Design Awards are prestigious accolades given in six categories to the most innovative and inspiring designs of the year — and this year's top honors in the fashion category went ... [ Published May 07 2012 by Japan Times ]

Entities: Museum of London Group, Issey Miyake, Japan, Tokyo

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The motorcycle was delivered to Steve Drane's bike shop near Victoria, British Columbia, where Drane had offered to restore it. "I just wanted to reunite this bike with its owner" the 57-year-old Drane said. "I've always felt Harley-Davidson motorcycles have a soul."

Harley-Davidson Museum to display tsunami-hit hog found off British Columbia [Japan Times - May 26 2012]

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