If you visited REALTOKYO recently you'll have seen the "19 x 10 Highlights of the Year" special gathering 19 RT editors' and contributors' top…..

Mishima Yukio committed suicide at the Ichigaya Camp of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Tokyo headquarters on November 25, 1970…..

"The 'Sunshine 60' building was completed in 1978. A the time it was said to be the tallest in Asia, but as high-rise buildings have been erecte…..

I went to Beijing the first time in two years. I was invited to a press briefing (November 1-3) at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), …..

Anyang is located about 25 kilometers south of Seoul. Not much more than "some average, boring suburban town" for the people of Seoul, the city has…..

One day after the opening of "Roppongi Crossing 2007", I walked around in Akihabara. My aim wasn't the AKB48 otaku haven or a "maid cafe", but the…..

We just finished the 17th issue of "ART iT". This one marks the magazine’s fourth anniversary, which we thought would be a good occasion to introduce the mag’s new look and contents. The new ART iT…..

Dramaturgist/director Ota Shogo passed away on the 13th of July. For an artist who was not exactly prolific, 67 is certainly much too young an age to…..

On September 2, a typically hot late summer day in Osaka, I went to see an event titled "Namura Art Meeting '04 - '34 vol. 02" at the huge Namura…..

It was last Monday, August 20, around noon, when the news came in the form of a fax from Yamaguchi Sayoko’s affiliated office…..

Nice, "theatralic" lecture by "Walking Theory" on Documenta’s transforming exhibition style, held at the Museum Fridericianum. Following an invitation…..

The title might suggest some kind of fairy tale, but I'm in fact just writing about a performance and an exhibition I saw last week in the eastern and…..

Last weekend I did the rounds of openings at four Kagurazaka galleries. As art fans will know, three of these are located in an old building in the…..

After returning from Europe to get some work done here in Japan, I jumped on another airplane to catch a press preview of the Venice Biennale…..

I'm just back from another busy journey across western Euope, visiting three major cities: Luxembourg, Brussels and Paris. There might (or might not)…..

I recently went to San Jose, following an invitation to the first "ZeroOne San Jose" (8/7-13), a media art festival that was concurrently held with…..

Right before Golden Week, I got a nice visit by Doi Kazuhiro (28) from Tokushima. He has been appearing in various media recently so you his name…..

Art Fair Tokyo obviously drew to a successful close. According to the organizers, even though the event took place on weekdays it attracted more than…..

"Tokyo Midtown" opened on March 30. All the world in recently enthusing about how "Roppongi is changing" and "an area for adults is emerging", which…..

I went to Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) to see Sakamoto Ryuichi + Takatani Shiro’s new installation LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible… (on 3/10 + 11)…..