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Elvis comes back as a ghost in a noh theater play
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Elvis comes back as a ghost in a noh theater play
Theater Nohgaku is translating the traditional art form to English with original plays that center global cultural and historical figures.
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Poetry, history and performance entwine in Daisydoze’s immersive spectacle
Since 2018, Daisydoze has been creating site-specific theater productions that explore local history and memory like “Cat Town,” now showing in Shimokitazawa.
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What ADHD looks like when it gets ahold of a microphone
Instead of scripting jokes, Mike Paxman and Alex T Thomas, two comedians with ADHD, decided to lean into the way their brains work and let loose in an unscripted comedy show.
Hina Haruka, a member of the radical feminist theater troupe TremendousCircus, poses for a photo while wearing a Gothic Lolita dress on a street in Tokyo's Harajuku neighborhood.
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Sep 15, 2026
Japanese feminist theater troupe fights misogyny in ‘cute’ Gothic Lolita fashion
By Tomohiro Osaki
With Gothic Lolita dresses and confrontational performances, TremendousCircus gives survivors a stage to reclaim their voices.
The Saitama Performing Arts Theater is known for its Shakespeare productions and their Sainokuni Shakespeare Series, which cycles through all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays.
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Sep 5, 2026
A year of Lear: Four new stagings hone in on the tragedy’s timeless lessons
By Kris Kosaka
Four separate productions of “King Lear” in one year in Japan signal renewed interest in the Shakespeare play that hasn’t always been the first choice.
Koji Yamamoto (center) stars as steelworker Jerry Lukowski in the Japan-U.S co-production of “The Full Monty,” currently performing in Tokyo. The actor says learning the lines and working entirely in English “took a lot of focus.”
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Aug 26, 2026
‘The Full Monty’ comes to Japan to bare all and open minds
By Alyssa I. Smith
The English-language musical comedy starring Koji Yamamoto asks big questions about masculinity and vulnerability while loosening up local audiences.
Bunraku puppeteer Tamasuke Yoshida rehearses with Catalonian singer Maria Arnal for the upcoming performances of “Kinkakuji” in Tokyo.
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Aug 8, 2026
A Yukio Mishima stage adaptation pulls genre-bending strings
By Kris Kosaka
A cross-cultural collaboration mixing bunraku puppetry, kabuki and literature is creating a new take on Yukio Mishima’s novel.
Stephanie Zaharis, who plays Misa in “Death Note: The Musical,” performs at a media event in London to promote the show.
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Aug 1, 2026
‘Death Note’ musical eyes a London breakthrough
By Alicia Haddick
Producers hope the hit adaptation opens the door for more Japanese original musicals overseas.
Wes-P has millions of followers and his viral clips made him recognizable out of Japan.
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Jul 21, 2026
Can Japanese comedy get laughs in English? Yoshimoto Kogyo lets the jokes rip
By Alicia Haddick
A zany weekly comedy show in Tokyo and Osaka aimed at non-Japanese speakers tries to jump over language barriers.
The “Princess Mononoke” adaptation was created under Shochiku’s Super Kabuki initiative, a modern form of kabuki with more technology in staging and open to pop culture collaborations.
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Jul 9, 2026
‘Princess Mononoke’ comes alive in Super Kabuki staging
By Alicia Haddick
Kabuki, one of 91AV原创 oldest performing art forms, and Studio Ghibli seek modern resonance in an everchanging landscape for arts.

Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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By Elizabeth Beattie

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