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SEBASTIAN MASUDA

Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Aug 8, 2015
Tokyo¡¯s cool beasts of fashion
Monstrously cute dining in Harajuku
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 25, 2014
¡®Kawaii¡¯ gets a landmark
While Japanese cool hunters might lament the lack of pop cultural exports in recent years ¡ª all the more conspicuous when compared to K-Pop¡¯s successful forays westward ¡ª kawaii (cute) culture has quietly permeated into global consciousness with all the effortless grace of singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu...
Japan Times
Events / Events In Tokyo
Sep 11, 2014
Tokyo City View gets dolled up for Barbie, Blythe and more
Japan is well-known for its dolls, producing edgy urban vinyl, cute soft toys, manga figurines and even therapy dolls for lonely senior citizens. This ¡°Doll Culture Exhibition¡± at Tokyo¡¯s Roppongi Hills¡¯ Tokyo City View observation deck, however, looks at old-school fashion dolls, which should make quite...
Japan Times
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Mar 13, 2014
Sebastian Masuda¡¯s mission to take Harajuku art global
New York is not a city one automatically associates with the Japanese concept of kawaii ¡ª lovably, irresistibly, dependably cute. But if Sebastian Masuda, the so-called ¡°king of kawaii,¡± has his way, the mean streets of ¡°Goodfellas¡± may one day emanate a candy-colored glow.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Feb 10, 2014
Great collaborations ¡ª Etro x Ninagawa; sumo x Sasquatchfabrix; Common Sleeve x almost everyone ¡ª plus Valentine¡¯s tips
Mika Ninagawa updates Etro¡¯s paisley, sumo stable Kokonoe-beya branches out to street fashion, while Common Sleeve mix and matches with more than 30 brands.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jul 2, 2013
Let¡¯s talk 100 percent kawaii!
Long before the mayor of Shibuya announced pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu as an official ambassador of kawaii culture, Sebastian Masuda, her art director, had been on a mission to spread ¡°kawaii culture¡± across the world, advocating it as not only a potent source of Â鶹´«Ã½ emerging soft power, but also...
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

Podcast

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.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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