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Thousands of people rallied in Tokyo against moves to redevelop the capital’s leafy Meiji Jingu Gaien district, carrying on a campaign that was central to acclaimed late musician Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Feb 5, 2021 The Kyoto Experiment (KEX) performing arts festival is marking the beginning of a new era. Not only does it have three new program directors at the helm, it also has a fresh logo and renewed focus on experimentation to boot. Despite a four-month delay due to the spread of COVID-19, the 11th edition of KEX is set to run from Feb. 6 to March 28. Ever since Yusuke Hashimoto, the former director who stepped down in 2019 after a 10-year reign, launched KEX in 2010, the festival has become a major cultural event, as well as a forum for freedom of expression. Now, with Yoko Kawa...
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By Park Han-sol "Hey, I thought my enemy was communism or imperialism… Or aliens or nightmare… / But it was you all along." In "Location of an Enemy," poet Lee Jang-wook comes to realize that the enemy he feared all his life was neither patriarchy, terrorists nor racists; it was another person, a potential host of the virus, greeting him. His poem is one of many pieces included in "Staying on Earth," a poetry anthology first published in September by CUON in Japanese and later translated into Korean. CUON is a Japanese publishing house that was established to introduce Korean literature t...