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August 18, 2026
 

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ROGER PULVERS

In what is billed as the first major production in English of Hisashi Inoue's "The Face of Jizo,¡± the Japanese play will have performances at the Seymour Centre in Sydney both in English and in Japanese.
CULTURE / Stage
Aug 22, 2025
¡®The Face of Jizo¡¯: Hisashi Inoue¡¯s play staged in Sydney commemorates WWII victims
Billed as the first major English-language production of the play, ¡°The Face of Jizo¡± also increases the variety of roles for Japanese actors in Australia.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
May 24, 2020
¡®Peaceful Circumstances¡¯: Negotiating relationships in a time of war
Roger Pulvers¡¯ ¡°Peaceful Circumstances¡± is a coming-of-age novel about a young woman at a time when the world is rapidly unraveling.
CULTURE / Books / RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS ABOUT JAPAN
Aug 31, 2019
¡®Half of Each Other¡¯: Grief, marriage and tragedy
¡®Half of Each Other,¡¯ the newest novel from the prolific author and director, Roger Pulvers, considers how love, desire and grief intertwine in the aftermath of tragedy.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 16, 2019
¡®The Unmaking of an American¡¯: One thread in a lifetime of cultural exploration
Roger Pulvers¡¯ latest memoir, ¡®The Unmaking of an American,¡¯ takes readers on an engaging and occasionally revelatory tour of Japan and Pulvers¡¯ own family history.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 10, 2018
¡®Liv¡¯: The truth of war in a pair of cornflower-blue eyes
In the landmark Western ¡°The Searchers¡± (1956) directed by John Ford, John Wayne plays embittered Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards, in obsessive pursuit of Comanche Indians who have kidnapped his niece. Such is Edward¡¯s hatred for Native Americans we spend the movie convinced he will murder, not rescue,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Dec 30, 2017
¡®Strong in the Rain¡¯: Poetry from the heart and mind by Kenji Miyazawa
¡®Strong in the Rain,¡± a classic Japanese poetry collection from Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1921), beautifully reveals much about both nature and humanity.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 19, 2017
Roger Pulvers challenges the idea of a hero in directorial debut, ¡®Star Sand¡¯
Roger Pulvers has had the sort of free-ranging, multifaceted career that seems like a dream in this specialized age, when academics labor in their narrow professional silos.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 21, 2015
The wanderer, writer and suspected spy who embraced Japan
T.S. Eliot may have written that ¡°April is the cruellest month,¡± but for Roger Pulvers, this spring is an extraordinarily felicitous one. In March, an English translation of his novel ¡°Starsand¡± was published and in April, translations will be released of both an anthology of tanka poetry by Takuboku...
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.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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