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FRANZ KAFKA

Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 8, 2019
¡®Dr. Hoffmann¡¯s Sanatorium¡¯: Delving deep into the weird world of Kafka
Playwright Kazumi Kobayashi, better known as Keralino Sandorovich, unveils his latest play, in which a fictional discovery of a lost Franz Kafka novel is made
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Dec 8, 2018
Kobo Abe¡¯s ¡®The Ark Sakura¡¯: A surreal narrative worth reading twice
¡®The Ark Sakura,¡¯ Kobo Abe¡¯s puzzling, dream-like narrative about an obese recluse living in a vast underground bunker, is a dense interlacing of punning wordplay, psychological excavation and surreal imagery.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 4, 2018
John Williams presents a made-in-Japan take on one of Kafka¡¯s classics
Written at the start of World War I and published in 1925 after its author¡¯s untimely death, Franz Kafka¡¯s ¡°The Trial¡± is one of those novels everyone knows by reputation (or, in my case, from a fevered reading in high school).
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Dec 9, 2017
¡®Secret Rendezvous¡¯ reveals primeval urge for knowledge and sexual satisfaction
¡°Secret Rendezvous¡± opens with an ambulance in the dead of night: The narrator¡¯s wife is taken to an underground hospital from which she vanishes. The connections to Franz Kafka¡¯s ¡°The Trial¡± in the absurdist, comical and sinister world of Kobo Abe are unmissable, but Abe characteristically takes his...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 26, 2014
French idol reflects on her Japanese droid son
As a playwright, stage director, Osaka University professor, manager of the Komaba Agora Theater in Tokyo and leader of the city¡¯s Seinendan theater company he formed in 1983, Oriza Hirata ¡ª whose ¡°contemporary colloquial theater¡± set the scene for much of Â鶹´«Ã½ new drama over the last 20 years ¡ª...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 1, 2014
Kafka¡¯s worm takes a high-tech turn
¡°I work a lot in France, where manga and anime are enormously popular, although many theater producers think they are basically for children and are often too violent. However, they regard my robot theater as being an essentially Japanese art form,¡± the pioneering dramatist Oriza Hirata said recently...
South Korea fires warning shots after North Korean soldiers crossed DMZ
North Korea's propaganda village Gijungdong as seen from a South Korea's observation post inside the Joint Security Area on the Demilitarized Zone in March 2023
Slowly but surely, Tokyo is becoming a hot spot for chicken rice
One of Singapore's most iconic dishes, the humble chicken rice is given an upscale treatment at a new Marunouchi cafe.
JAL and ANA to coordinate flight schedules for first time
An All Nippon Airways airplane flies past an oil refinery as it approaches to land at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
At Yasukuni, the politicians followed the script, but the shrine did not
People crowd in front of Yasukuni Shrine to pay tribute to the war dead on the 81st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo on Saturday.
Young Japanese anxious as Australia slows working holiday visa processing time
Commuters disembark a tram in Melbourne in March.
The new world of collectible design
Nilufar, founded by Milan curator Nina Yashar, was among the exhibitors at Salone Raritas. Yashar calls collectible design ¡°a free, authorial language¡± that goes beyond function.
Young Japanese anxious as Australia slows working holiday visa processing time
Commuters disembark a tram in Melbourne in March.
At Yasukuni, the politicians followed the script, but the shrine did not
People crowd in front of Yasukuni Shrine to pay tribute to the war dead on the 81st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo on Saturday.
Unrelenting Russian anti-war protesters in Japan fight through inescapable doubt
Anti-war Russians protest Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in February.
How U.S. bombing survey in Japan shed light on civilian sentiments of WWII
Residents are seen walking beside rubble in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in this undated photo taken soon after the end of World War II.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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