At the end of last year I went to see Robert Altman’s "Gosford Park." As Oh Shomei pointed out in his article on our Cinema Picks page, it’s a brilliant movie full of rogues…

A play based on Jean Genet’s "Les Paravents" was shown at Setagaya Public Theatre in early July. The piece was first staged in Berlin in 1961…

On the day the US and British air forces bombed Iraq, I went to Kamakura by train. The late winter sky above the old city was clear and blue…

Playwright Kisaragi Koharu died unexpectedly at the end of last year at the age of forty-four. Mourning this untimely death, musician Takahashi Yuji gave…

Tokyo-'the most interesting city in the world'?