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The Small Print
By Steve Trautlein
THIS BILL REVERSES
THE PRINCIPLE THAT
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BELONGS TO THE PUBLIC. WE
CANNOT ACCEPT IT”
—Kenta Yamada, a representative of the Japan P.E.N.
Club, on the proposed “secrets protection bill” being
debated in the Diet
processed meat injected with fat.
ćć Researchers at the World Economic Forum
ranked Japan 105th out of 136 countries in
terms of gender equality. That’s the worst result
among industrialized nations.
ćć According to a newspaper survey, 65 percent of
Japanese people “have not used a library at all
in the past year.”
ćć Headline of the Week: “Guppies, Tilapias Cause
Headache in Hokkaido” (via The Japan News)
CHRISTI ROCHIN
YEAH, GOOD LUCK WITH THAT
LOSERS
ćć Officials at upscale department store chain
Takashimaya admitted that they sold food
made from ingredients other than those listed
on the menu, including “steak” that was, in fact,
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328,000
Number of Japanese people who visited New
York City in 2012—a record high—according to
marketing firm NYC & Co
WALK ON THE MILD SIDE
ćć Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata said he
was “very glad” that ISS crewmembers took
a spacewalk with the Olympic torch ahead of
this winter’s Sochi Olympics.
ćć Archaeologists in Gunma studying the bones of
a man from the Kofun period (ca 3rd-7th century AD) discovered what may be the oldest
helmet ever used in Japan.
ćć Officials at the justice ministry are mulling a
plan to ease the visa rules for foreigners who
want “to train at restaurants serving traditional
Japanese cuisine.”
ćć More than 20,000 technology enthusiasts
crowded Tokyo Big Sight to get a glimpse selfdriving cars and other neat stuff at the 2013 ITS
(Intelligent Transport Systems) World Congress.
AND FINALLY…
CHRISTI ROCHIN
ćć Si x housew ives around t he countr y were
arrested for posting obscene videos of themselves on a pay-per-view website. One of the
gals said she did it to make money “to help cover
the costs of living and raising kids.”
ćć The education ministry has asked elementary
schools to start offering English lessons in the
third grade—two years earlier than usual—so
that “students [can] enjoy communicating in the
language.”
ćć A research team led by a professor at the
National Institute of Informatics is trying to
develop a robot that can pass the entrance
exam at Tokyo University.
ćć The TMG’s goal of “bringing delicious, mineral
water-style water to every household”—their
words, not ours—came closer to reality with
the opening of a purification plant in Misato,
Saitama.
tofu makers in Japan has dropped from 14,016
in 2003 to just 9,059 today.
MOVING ON
ćć Japan Coast Guard personnel in Mie replaced
the incandescent bulbs in the country’s oldest
lighthouse with LEDs and reflectors.
ćć Former baseball commissioner Yasuchika
Negoro, who is credited with taking steps to
minimize the influence of yakuza groups in
the game, died in Tokyo at age 81.
ćć A sports-promotion NGO led by pro-wrestlerturned-politician Antonio Inoki will open an
office in Pyongyang to help develop athletic ties
between Japan and North Korea.
ćć According to the labor ministry, the number of
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¥1.01 quadrillion
Japanese government debt as of October 1,
according to the finance ministry
ćć The Tokyo High Court ruled against a group of
ten Koreans who had asked that the names of
their deceased relatives be removed from the
list of people enshrined at Yasukuni Jinja.
ćć Meanwhile, the Osaka District Court ruled in
favor of three South Koreans who were seeking
compensation for medical expenses related to
the Hiroshima atomic bombing—the first time
ever that people living outside of Japan have
been offered such redress.
ćć Noted actor Ken Takakura (The Yellow Handkerchief, Poppoya) was one of five recipients of this
year’s Order of Culture award, presented by
the Emperor himself.
ćć Court officials in Tokyo said they’ll screen 400
potential lay judges for the January trial of a
former high-ranking member of the Aum
Shinrikyo cult. For normal trials, only about 60
potential jurors are screened.
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¥50 million
Estimated earnings of career burglar Takashi
Kido, who was arrested last month for breaking
into a home in Kawasaki, according to police
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emember the travelling gnome prank from
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can send their favorite cuddly toy on a similar adventure around Japan, thanks to Unagi Travel,
perhaps the world’s only travel agency for stuffed animals. Sign up for one of the four available tours ($35-95)
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COURTESY OF TOKYO SUPERSTAR AWARDS
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O
nce autumn officially arrives, some Tokyo
commuter trains are heated to sweat-inducing
levels. We tracked down aircon policies for the
major train lines.
JR: JR has no set guidelines on what date to turn on
the heat, so a judgement call is made based on temperature and weather conditions. Cars are heated to 23 C in
winter. In summer the mildly cooled cars are set for 27
C and the rest are at 25 C.
Odakyu: New carriages have automatic settings to
heat cars to 20 C. At suburban stations, only three out
of four doors in each car are opened to avoid letting the
heat out.
Keikyu: Conductors make the decision to turn on
the heat, set for 18 C based on the outdoor temperature
and how crowded the train is.
Tokyo Metro: The conductor gets to set the thermostat to maintain good air quality in the train based on
crowd conditions and the temperature.
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here is no end to headphone options for audiophiles in Japan and global brand Sol Republic
has entered the crowded playing field as part
of their boldly stated mission of “ridding the world of
hollow sounding headphones.” The high end models
were designed with music creators in mind—electronic
musician Steve Aoki is a convert—but the technology was then filtered all the way down to entry level
options. All models have built-in mics and three-button
device control, making them compatible with newer
Apple devices as well as Android and Windows phones.
The Tracks (¥9,800) and Tracks HD (¥13,800) on-ear
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to be thrown out should it develop a short over time.
The Amps (¥6,800) and Amps HD (¥9,800) in-ear models bring deep bass and clarity to your smartphone and
feature wide, flat cables that resist tangling. Available
at Amazon.jp and major electronic retailers.
COURTESY OF SOL REPUBLIC
he Tokyo Superstar Awards were launched
in 2010 to “honor those who act as bridges
between LGBT society and society at large,
embracing their differences.” Recognition is given to
individuals, corporations, media and community programs that have had a positive impact on LGBT culture
in Japan. Past corporate awards have gone to Google
and IBM for supporting diversity and marriage equality
and overseas superstars include President Obama and
Lady Gaga who sparked dialogue on gay rights in the
country. This year’s ceremony will be held December 7
at Billboard Live Tokyo. Pre-sale tickets for the gala have
already sold out, but additional fourth floor seats will go
on sale for ¥8,000 on November 22. http://www.tokyo
superstarawards.com
lthough most will acknowledge that bike helmets can potentially save lives, not everyone
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standards and are covered with an interchangeable
fabric outer layer in a number of styles ranging from
conservative check to hipster patterns (pictured;
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noggin, medium and large sizes are available. Ladies
might prefer the fashionable ones from Sawako Furuno
(¥13,440-14,490), a London-based Japanese designer.
The Japan-inspired designs include sakura and hanabi
motifs with feminine models in pink and mint green
also available. For more on cycling and the city see our
feature, pp 06-08.
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Getting the best out of two wheels in Tokyo
By Byron Kidd
COURTESY OF HALF FAST CYCLISTS
I
n a recent independent survey Tokyo was
ranked as the 10th most cycling friendly
city in the world. The only other Asian city
to make the list is Nagoya. In fact, urban
mobility expert Mikael Colville-Andersen, CEO
of Copenhagenize Design Co. the creators of the
Copenhagenize Index of Bicycle Friendly Cities,
goes even further and ranks Japan as the third
great cycling nation behind Denmark and the
Netherlands. And rightly so:
Tokyo is among the largest and most populated
cities in the world, but most residential neighborhoods have their own unique small town feel. In
terms of services, Japanese neighborhoods are
self contained with residents having to cycle no
more than five minutes to reach supermarkets,
kindergartens, schools and doctors—in fact most
necessities for everyday living are just a short
ride away. Without the need to travel excessive
distances for the basics of daily life, a bicycle
makes perfect sense. So much sense, in fact, that
14 percent of trips made in Tokyo each day are by
bicycle, compared to just 2 percent for London and
3 percent for San Francisco.
UP THE GARDEN PATH
Many of Tokyo’s better parks
lend cycles
W
hen it comes to cyclists numbers and
everyday bicycle usage Tokyo is leading the world, but let’s not forget that
Tokyo offers some great escapes for the recreational cyclist. The Palace Cycling Course is
a 3km, car-free loop on Uchibori-dori open to
cyclists 10am-3pm on Sundays (weather permitting). The route is one of the few places in all of
the country where it is legal to ride a tandem on
the street and is popular with couples and families. Bicycles can be borrowed for free from
the reception area near Nijubashimae stn, exit
2. 03-6409-6923 www.jbpi.or.jp/pc1.php
Showa Memorial Park in Tachikawa has
more than14km of paths winding through its
RIVER RUNS
Largely closed to vehicles—Tokyo
river paths are the perfect escape
from busy city life
T
he Kandagawa R iver ends nea r Inokashira Park, a family-friendly destination
for trips starting near Takaido station or,
for a longer ride, Nakano-Fujimicho station.
The Zenpukuji River branches off from the
Kandagawa near Nakano-Fujimicho station then
makes its way up toward Ogikubo station. It is a
refreshing route through parklands dotted with
163 hectares. Bicycles can be rented for three
hours for ¥400 (¥250 for children). Nearest stn:
Tachikawa. www.showakinenpark.go.jp/
english
The Sug ina mi Chi ldren’s Tra f f ic Pa rk
teaches young riders the rules of the road with a
practice course complete with traffic lights, road
signs and railway crossings. Bicycles and pedal
go karts are provided on site. 1-22-13 NishiNarita, Suginami-ku. 03-3315-4564. Nearest
stn. Hamadayama or Minami-Asagaya. http://
meturl.com/kidstraffic
Yoyogi Park Cycling Center in the northwest
corner of the park rents bikes for adults (¥200 first
hour/¥100 additional hour) and kids (¥100 first
hour/¥50 additional hour) and they even have
tandems (¥200 for first lap/¥100 for additional
laps). The bikes can only be used on the designated cycling path, but that is more than ample.
03-3465-6855.
ponds and playgrounds.
The Arakawa River on the border of between
Tokyo and Saitama offers a wide, well maintained,
car-free, often windy cycling road starting near
Kasairinkaikoen station near Tok yo Bay and
ending near Kumagaya station in Saitama. The
riverbank is dotted with sports fields which has
led to accidents involving cyclists and pedestrians. The planned speed limit has been dropped,
but be careful.
The Tamagawa River on the southern border
of the city has a path is narrower, less maintained
and more crowded than the Arakawa path, making it is less suited to high speeds. Starting near
Haneda Airport and extending to the mountains
of western Tokyo, it offers long-distance cycling
without ever leaving the city.
The Tamako Cycling Road starting near
Tanashi station and heading due west to Tamako
and Sayamako on the edge of Saitama makes for a
wonderful day ride.
EVERY TIME I SEE
AN ADULT ON A
BICYCLE, I NO
LONGER DESPAIR FOR THE
FUTURE OF THE HUMAN
RACE.” —H.G. Wells
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PEDAL POWER
Why Tokyo is the perfect city
for cycling
km
Distance of average
bike ride in the capital,
suggesting people
pedal to everyday
errands
Tokyo’s ranking in the 2013 Copenhagenize
Index of Bicycle Friendly Cities.
Percent of everyday
trips taken by bicycle
in Tokyo. Source:
Tokyo
Statistical
Yearbook,
2009
23%
Walk
12%
Private transport
48%
Rail
3%
Bus
1. Amsterdam
2. Copenhagen
3. Utrecht
4. Tie: Seville, Bordeaux
5. Tie: Nantes, Antwerp
6. Eindhoven
7. Malmo
8. Berlin
9. Dublin
10
112
Saitama
Shinjuku
Hachioji
#1
Combined length of bike
paths in Tokyo (which
the government plans to
double by 2020).
Chiba
Tokyo
Shinagawa
Machida
#2
km
Shibuya
Kanagawa
#3
Japan’s ranks number 3 after the
Netherlands and Denmark on the list
of greatest cycling nations, according
to urban mobility expert Mikael
Colville-Andersen.
BICYCLE BLUES
Cycling in Japan isn’t always
a downhill glide
9
Tokyo Bay
million
Estimated number of
bicycles in Tokyo
72.5 million
Estimated number
of bicycles in Japan
740,000
Number of bikes removed in Tokyo
for illegal parking in 2009.
310,000
Number of those those
that were disposed of.
965
Number of people injured
or killed in bicycle accidents
around the country.
2002
10
Source: National Police Agency
th
The day each month when police
crack down on cycling infractions
(moved to the previous Friday if
the 10th falls on a weekend).
6,267
Number of bike-related
casualties, a 649%
increase in 10 years
2012
13.5 Billion
Estimated yearly cost of
removing and storing illegally
parked bikes in Tokyo.
36
Percent of traffic
accidents in 2010 that
involved bicycles.
4,000
Number of riders issued
warnings in the first
three months after such
crackdowns started in 2010.
30
Percent of bicycle
users covered by
accident insurance
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WEEKEND RIDES
Leaving Tokyo opens up unlimited
destinations
N
ikko and even the Japanese Alps are
destinations far afield of Tokyo that
can be reached by express trains with
bikes full covered in bags.
Sado Island in the Sea of Japan can easily
be reached and circumnavigated in a single
weekend.
Izu Oshima island south of Tokyo offers a rather unconventional overnight trip. Take the overnight
ferry operated by Tokai Kisen (www.tokaikisen.co.jp) that arrives before dawn. Cycling clockwise
from the ferry terminal, it is possible to circle the entire island before lunch. More energetic cyclists
can take the steep climb to the crater of the active volcano for wonderful views before a speedy descent
to catch the ferry back to Tokyo.
Serious roadies are spoiled
for choice
O
gouchi Dam on Lake Okutama is a
sharp climb up from Oume station
and offers scenic views and casual
rides before a pleasant ride back down, enjoyable any time of year.
Uenohara and Otsuki offer mountain
paths out of Tokyo into Yamanashi Prefecture,
where they can take trains back home. Since
the paths leading up Mount Takao are now
closed to bicycles, these are choice destinations for cyclists looking for longer, more challenging rides.
A bike bag will allow you to take your wheels on the train for scenic, challenging day trips around
the Miura and Izu peninsulas or Hakone, which offers beautiful views of Mt Fuji and is a riot of color in
both the autumn and spring. And with a bag getting home is as easy as finding the closest train station
at the end of the day.
GROUPS
• Half Fast Cycling is an international group organizing
rides in and around Tokyo. http://halffastcycling.com
• Night Pedal Cruising is a Japanese group that does
monthly themed night rides. https://w w w.facebook.
com/pedalcruising
• Pedal Day Festivities in Tokyo are organized by the
same group. http://pedallife.com
IN PRINT
• Touring Mapple guides available in bookstores are
mainly aimed at motorcyclists but are useful for long distance cyclists. Although printed in Japanese, they have
useful maps and terrain information.
• Cycle Press is an English bi-monthly
magazine on trends, marketing and
new products. They also sell guidebooks to cycle shops across Japan.
http://cyclepress.co.jp/en
DO YOU RIDE A BICYCLE?
1. I commute to work/school
2323 responses
2. I used to ride quite often....................................................1749
3. I don’t really ride much recently................................ 1473
4. When I go shopping...............................................................1471
5. I don’t own a bicycle.............................................................1020
6. I never ride bikes........................................................................601
7. I ride to my local train station.......................................... 478
8. I take my kids to and from school................................350
9. I like cycling....................................................................................176
10. If you mean motorbikes, I ride often....................... 131
DO YOU WEAR A HELMET
WHEN RIDING?
1. No............................................................................. 7693 responses
2. I did when I was a student . ...........................................2738
3. If I have one with me, I wear it......................................... 180
4. When commuting to school/work.............................. 135
5. If I’m cycling fast........................................................................ 131
6. Every day.........................................................................................127
7. I plan to… later....................................................................................74
8. When touring ................................................................................. 65
9. If I plan on going far away.......................................................19
WHAT DO YOU THINK POLICE
ENFORCING THE BAN ON RIDING
ON SIDEWALKS?
1.We need bicycle-only lanes................ 4890 responses
2. Accidents with cars might increase.......................3809
3. Cyclist etiquette is bad so it’s necessary.............. 2517
4. It must be done .......................................................................1294
5. Then you would have to watch out for cars.......1114
6. It’s OK if it's not more difficult to ride......................... 733
7. I wonder if it will really be effective............................389
8. I’ve been hit, so I’m for a crackdown......................... 333
9. I don’t really know....................................................................188
10. I’ve bumped into pedestrians..........................................19
Source: http://ranking.goo.ne.jp
BIKE SHARE
ONLINE
• Bicycle Safe offers information on
common bicycle accidents and how
to avoid them, but readers in Japan
will have to adjust for left-hand traffic.
www.bicyclesafe.com
• Folding Biker Japan offers useful trips, tips, links and resources
for folding bike enthusiasts. http://foldingbikerjapan.
blogspot.jp
• Japan Cycling Navigator is a bilingual online magazine offering adv ice on buy ing and renting bikes,
camping and long trips. www.japancycling.org/v2
• Positivo Espresso is a blog with postings on routes
around Kanto and other useful resources. http://positivo-espresso.blogspot.jp
• Rent a Bike offers extensive English info on rentals
throughout Tokyo. http://rentabike.jp
• Ride with GPS has over one million user-sourced bike
routes around the world, with Tokyo and Japan getting
their fair share. http://ridewithgps.com
• Tokyo By Bike by Byron Kidd offers articles on trends,
laws and bike customization. http://www.tokyobybike.
com
• Tokyo Cycling Club offers an English-language forum
at http://www.tokyocycle.com/bbs/portal
JEFF W. RICHARDS
SPOKES AND FOLKS
Resources for metropolitan cyclists
HEAD TO THE HILLS
JAPANESE CYCLISTS'
THOUGHTS
I
f you live in Yokohama, take advantage of bike
sharing service Bay Bike, which maintains
over 300 red bikes at 15 stations across the city
from Yokohama to Ishikawacho stations—which
means you can pedal throughout Minato Mirai,
Bashamichi, Kannai, Chinatown, Yamashita Koen
and Motomachi. Sign up online with a credit card
or head to one of their offices where you will be furnished with a Bay Bike touch card. Use it to unlock
an available bike at one of the stations and away you
go. Drop the cycle off at any other Bay Bike station.
One month subscriptions cost ¥1,050 allowing you
to pick up a bike and use it at no extra charge for 60
minutes. Each additional half-hour is ¥105. Day use
costs ¥425 and a ¥1,575 premium monthly membership allows you to reserve a bike 30 minutes ahead
of time. http://docomo-cycle.jp/yokohama
Arts & Entertainment ALL THE BEST IN ARTS & CULTURE ACROSS THE METROPOLIS
sports
SOCCER
ROUNDUP
Japan’s footballers race
to the season’s big finish
By Dan Orlowitz
music
W
ith three rounds remaining in the 2013
J.League season, the top five teams in the
standings are far too close for comfort.
Ardija sink from new highs to the usual lows
At the halfway point of the season it was Omiya
Ardija, the tiny club that could, who sat on top of
the leaderboard. Why are they now in 13th place? A
combination of key injuries and locker room malaise
combined to create a perfect storm of failure, resulting
in the Saitama side losing 15 out of their last 16 games.
A coaching change and the arrival of Australia captain
Lucas Neill did little to stem the bleeding and Ardija
look to finish exactly where they have in all of their
other J1 seasons.
Who wants to win it?
That’s the question everyone’s asking after 31 rounds,
with just six points separating the top five clubs. With
a lineup composed of 30-something veterans such as
defenders Yuji ‘Bomberhead’ Nakazawa, Dutra and evergreen striker Marquinhos, Yokohama F. Marinos have
made a significant push to their first title since 2004.
Despite retaining the lead they stumbled to a loss before
the international break without captain Shunsuke Nakamura, who is recovering from a gallbladder infection that
could see him miss the rest of the season.
The Marinos’ woes have allowed Urawa Reds and
defending champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima to catch up,
with Kashima Antlers and Cerezo Osaka not far behind.
In the league’s 20th season it is all too appropriate that
one of its founding members will be declared winners more than likely on the final day of the campaign.
The fall and rise of Nelsinho Baptista
After a solid unbeaten run in July and August, long-time
Kashiwa Reysol manager Nelsinho had a surprising
statement for the few press who stuck around after the
team’s 3-1 loss at Kashima Antlers: he was resigning, with
immediate effect. The unexpected announcement sent
shockwaves across the league—until the Brazilian was
eventually convinced to return to his post.
Despite the non-resignation story and Reysol’s
mediocre league form, it has not been a completely
disappointing year for the 2011 champions: the small
Chiba outfit reached the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League, a feat not accomplished by a Japanese
club since 2009. Though they would fall to eventual
SEBADOH
The indie rock warhorse’s new Defend Yourself
By Dan Grunebaum
W
ith long-serving US indie-rock
outfit Sebadoh, what you see—
and hear—is what you get.
“I always write from a very
direct place,” offers frontman Lou Barlow from
his home in Los Angeles, “which is good, but
bad in some ways, because classic songwriting
is about putting yourself in characters. With
Sebadoh I write in a way that literally documents what’s going on in my life.”
Early Sebadoh songs famously took up
Barlow’s expulsion by leader J. Mascis from
Massachusetts band Dinosaur Jr. On their new
album, Defend Yourself, the confessional atmosphere is even more personal and painful. “In
the last year I left my wife,” Barlow says simply.
“We’d been married for 17 years and together
for 25 years. I left her during the recording of
the record. So that informed a few of the songs.”
Where Barlow played the foil to Mascis in
Dinosaur Jr., with Sebadoh, it’s all Barlow and
co-leader Eric Gaffney. The pair formed the
band in 1986, later filling out the lineup with
drummer Jason Loewenstein.
Barlow and Gaffney’s songs have a less
choked atmosphere than Mascis’s, but they
remain quintessentially indie rock in flavor.
Barely tuneful vocals are mumbled under
grinding guitars—the ability to emote, rather
than play a solo or pen a clever song, is the goal.
After releasing a few of lo-fi indie rock’s
more inf luential albums (Weed Forestin’,
Bakesale) in the late ’80s and ’90s, Sebadoh (a
champions Guangzhou Evergrande, there was still a
trophy in store as Reysol defeated Urawa Reds to capture the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup on November 2.
It was Nelsinho’s fifth domestic title at Reysol in
four years following the 2010 J2 title, 2011 J1 championship, 2012 Supercup and 2012 Emperor’s Cup. Next
year they’ll have a chance to win their first international
trophy when they face the Copa Sudamerica winners in
the Suruga Bank Championship.
nonsense word coined by Barlow) went quiescent
for a while. Barlow mended fences with Mascis for
the 2005 Dinosaur Jr. reunion, and Gaffney had his
solo project.
But Barlow and Gaffney went out on tour
together again in 2007, even visiting Japan a few
years later for a gig at O-West in Shibuya. The
groundwork was set for their first recording in 14
years.
“We just finally found some time to do a new
album,” Barlow explains. “We’ve had some really
great tours, but it wasn’t realistic for the touring
band to record for various reasons. Then Bob [current drummer Bob D’Amico] joined Sebadoh in
2010, and that went really well. So we made some
definite plans. Jason and Bob flew out to LA and we
got together in my practice space and recorded.”
The three tracked Defend Yourself without a
producer, and the results are loose and lo-fi—yet
surprisingly energetic for a bunch of middle-aged
guys. “The last record we did in a studio and there
was a lot of pressure and money involved,” Barlow
relates. “What we learned was, if we were going to
make another record and have a good time doing
it, we wouldn’t get involved in any of that.”
At this stage in life, Barlow is unconcerned
about staking out any new musical ground. “So
much of what is considered modern music is actually regurgitated,” he believes. “I don’t think rock
has progressed in any real way for a very long
time—I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I’m just saying the most natural thing is to just write some
songs and play them, and not make a conscious
Jubilost at sea
The relegations of FC Tokyo and Gamba Osaka to the
J2 in recent years have shown that nobody is safe in
the J.League, and this year that’s true of three-time
league winners Jubilo Iwata. The Shizuoka side
simply never got it together despite the mid-season
hiring of London Olympic coach Takashi Sekizuka
and the last-ditch signing of defender Michihiro
Yasuda. With Jubilo’s relegation, confirmed in round
art
THE KANO SCHOOL IN EDO
Japan’s first family of art at the Idemitsu
By C.B. Liddell
IDEMITSU MUSEUM OF ART
Papa Birds and Monkeys by Kano Naonobu, 17th century.
COURTESY OF HOSTESS
effort to evolve in any way or make anything
timely.”
The name for the album came after the realization that three songs had the word “defend”
in them. “A lot of our songwriting has been about
understanding other people, but at some point you
have to consider your own emotional wellbeing,”
Barlow affirms. “Rather than always understand
someone else, I had to go, ‘Well this is how I feel.’
There’s a double meaning: literally ‘defend yourself,’ but also to send the message to someone
else that I’m not taking care of you any longer. It’s
harsh, but it’s my life and I only have one of them.”
Showing archetypal indie rock lack of selfesteem, Barlow is sanguine that few people will
actually relate the lyrics to events in his own life.
“I’ve always felt my life doesn’t really matter that
much and that no one is listening when I expose
something,” he says. “I feel really anonymous
when I do it. Even in my personal life, when I write
for people, rarely do they see themselves in the
songs. I take the view that the more honest I am
in writing about myself, people will take that and
apply it in their own lives.”
This goes for Barlow’s own experience of music.
“When I hear a classic, great, incredibly personal
song, I am not thinking literally about the musician who wrote it—I’m applying it to myself,” he
says. “And I write my own songs with the naïve
hope that other people are doing the same thing.”
Hostess Weekender@Yebisu Garden Hall, Nov
30-Dec 1 (Sebadoh play Nov 30). See concert
listings (popular) for details.
31, there are just four teams left (Marinos, Antlers,
Nagoya Grampus and Shimizu S-Pulse) who have
never played in the second division.
A southeast move for the J.League
While the newly announced two-stage season format that is scheduled to begin in 2015 has few fans,
initiatives by the league to introduce Southeast Asian
players to Japan have been slightly more successful.
I
n the history of Japanese art, no family
plays a bigger role than the Kano family
and the school of art that bears their name.
Founded by Masanobu Kano (1434-1530),
who became the official painter of the Muromachi feudal government, the school spanned
four centuries and monopolized most of the top
patronage in Japan during that period. Like any
successful family business, they also set up the
occasional branch office, most notably in Edo,
when it became the capital of the country in the
early 17th century.
T h i s med iu m-si z ed ex h ibit ion at t he
Idemitsu Museum of Art focuses on the work
produced by this Edo branch, with a range of
works that include paintings on hanging scrolls
and folding screens, as well as sketchbooks,
ceramics, and other works.
The Kano School painters were essentially
kan-ga (Chinese painting) style painters, who
looked to the Chinese ink painters of the Song,
Yuan, and Ming periods as their models. This
means that many of their early works, like the
impressive folding screen Birds and Flowers of
the Four Seasons (16th century) by Masanobu
Kano are actually monochrome, a fascinating
fact when you consider how integral color usually is in the depiction of nature.
The first part of the show focuses on the daring innovations of Kano Tan’yu (1602-1674), who
left large empty spaces on his screen paintings,
which gave his images a kind of floating quality. One of the attractions of these works would
have been the large exposed areas of fresh, clear
paper, but now, after several hundreds of years,
the paper has discolored and looks rather drab.
Luckily, this was not the direction that the
The arrival of Vietnam captain Le Cong Vinh at
second-division Consadole Sapporo has brought
a wave of interest from media and advertisers in
the region. Successful trials this fall by Indonesia’s
Andik Vermansyah at Ventforet Kofu and Thailand’s Chanthip Songkrasin at Shimizu S-Pulse have
also turned heads.
A lthough plans have not been finalized ,
reports have surfaced that in 2014 J.League clubs
Kano School headed in. Keen to maintain their
dominance of the art market, and to suit the
increasingly garish tastes of the new Edo aristocracy, they went in for more decorative works,
most notably applying gold leaf to the folding
screens before painting on them.
This created a surface on which the paint—
freed from the over-absorbent qualities of the
paper—became more dynamic and expressive.
This encouraged artists to make more adventurous brush strokes, such as those depicting the
trees in Kano Naonobu’s Papa Birds and Monkeys (17th century).
But gold-leaf covered panels did not just
change the feel of the brush and provide a decorative background that aged well. In the hands
of a skilful artist it could also be used to create
interesting contrast and tonal effects that could
shine through the paint.
A perfect example is on display in Kano
Tsunenobu’s Waves and Waterfowls (17th-18th
century), which shows rocks surrounded by spiraling waves. In some parts of the rock the gold is
only thinly painted over, allowing it to partially
shine through creating varied light and texture
that energizes the rocks.
Exquisite works like this hardly seem the
product of mere human labor. Instead they
seem to have sprung into being fully formed
by some miracle of creation. But another interesting point of the exhibition is that it includes
studies, practice sketches and painting plans,
revealing just how much homework lay behind
some of these images. That may have been the
real gold.
Idemitsu Museum of Art, until Dec 15. See
exhibition listings for details.
(including those of the newly founded J3) will be
allowed one extra roster spot for SEA players from
countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and
Cambodia. With J1 broadcasts across the region having begun this year, the league’s strategy to expand
into a prime developing market may set the tone for
the next 20 years.
J.League soccer, various venues. See sports
listings for details.
Agenda Listings
Submit your event at metropolis.co.jp/listings/submit
CONCERT
fusion. Dec 7, 6pm, ¥3,500 (adv)
+1. Club Quattro. Nearest stn:
Shibuya. Tel: 03-3477-8750.
www.creativeman.co.jp
Artism Festa
Underground and goth-rock.
Dec 7-8, 3:30pm, ¥3,000 (adv)/
¥3,500 (door) +1d. Live Inn
Rosa. Tel: 03-5956-3463. www.
artism.jp
Crossfaith
Drums & Voices
Pan-Asianism gets a new boost in musical form when masters
from six Southeast Asian countries join Japanese maestros
in a concert to celebrate ties between ASEAN nations and
Japan. A cast of 12 has been touring Asia with a program that
grew out of a workshop conducted under the leadership of
musical director Michiru Oshima, a composer for Godzilla
scores among others. With the goal of forging something
new from the musical traditions of each nation, the group
includes Vietnamese dulcimer master Mai Lien, Cambodian
dancer and drummer Channa and Burmese percussionist
Bo Thu Rain along with several other virtuosos of local folk
traditions.
Dec 18, 7pm, ¥5,000. Bunkamura Orchard Hall. Nearest stn:
Shibuya. Tel: 03-3477-9999. http://drums-and-voices.jp/en
Concerts
POPULAR
Atoms for Peace
Thom Yorke, Flea and
company. Nov 22, 7pm,
¥9,000-10,000 (adv) +1d.
Studio Coast. Nearest stn:
Shin-Kiba. Tel: 03-34996669. www.creativeman.
co.jp
Loud and Metal Mania
Finnish metal heavyweights
Battle Beast and Whispered.
Nov 22, 7pm, ¥5,800
(adv) +1d. Unit. Nearest
stn: Daikanyama. www.
creativeman.co.jp
Hokuo Music Night
A selection of the best bands
from the Nordic countries.
Nov 22, 7:30pm, ¥5,800 (adv)
+1d. Duo Music Exchange.
Nearest stn: Shibuya. www.
creativeman.co.jp
Sheena and The Rokkets
New wave from the late
1970s. Nov 23, 7pm,
¥3,800 (adv)/ ¥4,500 +1d.
SuperDeluxe. Nearest stn:
Roppongi. Tel: 03-54120515. www.super-deluxe.
com/room/3497
Animax Musix
Two days of anime music.
Nov 23-24, 2pm, ¥8,500
(adv). Yokohama Arena.
Nearest stn: Shin-Yokohama.
Tel: 0570-02-9999. www.
red-hot.ne.jp
Charisma.com
Electro-pop female rap
duo. Nov 24, 6pm, ¥2,800
(adv) +1d. WWW. Nearest
stn: Shibuya. Tel: 050-55330888. official-charisma.com
Black Rebel Motorcycle
Club
Blues, neo-psychedelia
and garage rock. Nov 25,
7:30pm, ¥6,300 (adv) +1d.
Liquidroom. Nearest stn:
Ebisu. Tel: 03-3499-6669.
Rain
K-pop heartthrob and daring
dancer. Nov 25-28, 7pm,
¥9,500 (adv) +1. Zepp Tokyo.
Nearest stn: Aomi. www.udo.
co.jp/Artists/Rain
Namie Amuro
Okinawa pop queen. Nov
26-27, 6:30pm; Dec 7,
6pm; Dec 8, 5pm, ¥8,500
(adv). Yoyogi National
Gymnasium. Nearest stn:
Meiji-Jingumae. http://
kyodotokyo.com
Totalfat
Tokyo punk rock. Nov
27, 7pm, ¥3,500 +1d.
Shibuya-AX. Nearest stn:
Harajuku. Tel: 03-3499-6669.
www.totalfat.net
Leo Ieiri
Up-and-coming J-pop singersongwriter. Nov 28, 7pm,
¥4,800 (adv). Zepp Diver City.
Nearest stn: Daiba. www.
jvcmusic.co.jp/leo-ieiri
The Cardigans
Swedish pop giants. Nov 28,
7pm, ¥7,500-8,500 (adv) +1d.
Harajuku. Tel: 03-3499-6669.
Hennessy Artistry
Bill Laswell, Nils Petter Molvaer
and others. Nov 29, 8pm,
¥3,500 (adv)/ ¥4,000 (door).
XEX Nihonbashi. Nearest stn:
Mitsukoshi-mae. Tel: 03-35480065. http://hennessy-artistry.
jp/upcomingevents
Ryo Carnival
Post-hardcore rockers 9mm
Parabellum Bullet and others.
Nov 30, 4:30pm, ¥3,150 (adv)
+1d. Shibuya-AX. Nearest stn:
Harajuku. Tel: 050-5533-0888.
www.shibuya-ax.com
Yokohama Otomatsuri
A wide range of performances
of various styles hosted at
venues across Yokohama.
Until Nov 30. various times,
various prices,Yokohama city.
http://yokooto.jp/
Hostess Club Weekender
Sebadoh, Deerhunter, Neutral
Milk Hotel and others. Nov 30,
2pm; Dec 1, 1pm, ¥7,000 (1 day,
adv)/ ¥13,900 (2 days, adv) +1d.
Yebisu Garden Hall. Nearest stn:
Ebisu. portal.tickebo.jp/pc/en
Bon Jovi
Up-and-coming Osakan
industrial metallers. Dec
8, 6pm, ¥3,500 (adv) +1d.
O-East. Nearest stn: Shibuya.
Tel: 03-3499-6669. www.
creativeman.co.jp
Country Yard
Punk rock band with After
Tonight, Northern 19 and
others. Dec 8, 1pm, ¥2,800
(adv) +1d. Yokohama Bay
Hall. Nearest stn: MotomachiChukagai. Tel: 045-624-3900.
www.smash-jpn.com
Elvis Costello & The
Imposters
Angry, emotional and
energetic ensemble. Dec 11
& 13-14, 7:30pm, ¥8,000 (adv)
+1d. Ex Theater Roppongi.
Nearest stn: Roppongi or
Nogizaka. Tel: 03-3444-6751.
www.ex-theater.com
Arashi
J-pop idol quintet. Dec 12-15,
6pm, ¥8,500 (adv). Tokyo
Dome. Nearest stn: Suidobashi.
Tel: 0180-993-773. www.
johnnys-net.jp
Fear, and Loathing in Las
Vegas
Electro-metalcore. Kobe
kids tear up the dance floor,
eardrums and more. Dec 13,
7pm, ¥3,500 (adv) +1d. Zepp
Diver City. Nearest stn: Daiba.
Tel: 03-3499-6669. www.
lasvegas-jp.com
The Birthday
Garage and punk rock. Dec 13,
7pm, ¥4,500 (adv) +1d. Club
Quattro. Nearest stn: Shibuya.
Tel: 03-3477-8750. www.
smash-jpn.com
CSS
New rave rock from Brazil. Dec
14, 7pm, ¥6,000 (adv) +1d. Ex
Theater Roppongi. Nearest stn:
Roppongi or Nogizaka. www.
smash-jpn.com
The Watanabes
Indie pop rockers' video
release party and full 2 hour
show. Dec 14, 8pm, free. What
the Dickens. Nearest stn: Ebisu.
Tel: 03-3780-2099. www.
thewatanabes.com
Bradio
Groovy masters of funk. Dec
15, 7pm, ¥2,000 (adv)/ ¥2,500
(door) +1d. ACB Hall. Nearest
stn: Shinjuku. Tel: 03-32050901. www.bradio-web.com
'80s rock icon who'll be there
for you. Dec 4, 7pm, ¥9,00012,000 (adv). Tokyo Dome.
Nearest stn: Suidobashi. Tel:
03-5800-9999. http//l-tike.com
Organic Groove
Dragon Ash
New Peace
Lagitagida Tutela
Big Bang
Japanese rap-rock. Dec 4,
7:30pm, ¥4,980 (adv) +1d. Ex
Theater Roppongi. Nearest stn:
Roppongi or Nogizaka. www.
ex-theater.com
Progressive rock with Mop
of Head and others. Dec 4,
7pm, ¥2,800 (adv)/ ¥3,300
(door) +1d. WWW. Nearest stn:
Shibuya. http://lagitagida.jp
Zebrahead
Punk pop from the OC. Dec
4, 7pm, ¥6,500 (adv) +1d.
Harajuku. www.creativeman.
co.jp
Roach
Okinawan melodic hardcore
band. Dec 5, 7pm, ¥3,000 (adv)/
¥3,500 (door) +1d. O-West.
Nearest stn: Shibuya. eplus.jp
Geki Rock X The Bonez
Rock, hip-hop and electro-
Antibalas, Albatrus and others.
Dec 15, 5pm, ¥6,500 (adv) +1d.
Unit. Nearest stn: Daikanyama.
www.organicgroove.net/party
Husking Bee, Asparagus and
more. Dec 17, 7:15pm, ¥3,000
(adv) +1d. Fever. Nearest stn:
Shindaita. Tel: 03-3444-6751.
www.smash-jpn.com
K-pop heartthrobs. Dec 19-20,
6pm; Dec 21, 4pm, ¥9,500
(adv). Tokyo Dome. Nearest
stn: Suidobashi. Tel: 050-55330888. www.diskgarage.com
Kemuri
Recently reunited funlovin'
punkrockers. Dec 20, 7pm,
¥4,000-4,500 (adv) +1d. Zepp
Diver City. Nearest stn: Daiba.
Tel: 03-3444-6751. www.
smash-jpn.com
Babymetal
Teeny bop trio that fuses idol
music with metal. Dec 21, 4pm,
¥5,800 (adv). Makuhari Messe.
Nearest stn: Kaihin-Makuhari.
Tel: 0570-084-003. www.
red-hot.ne.jp/sp/babymetal
Shonen Knife
All-female pop-punk veterans.
Dec 21, 6pm, ¥3,000 (adv) +1d.
Fever. Nearest stn: Shindaita.
Tel: 03-3444-6751. www.
smash-jpn.com
Harajuku Performance
and Dommune 2013
Open Reel Ensemble, The
Otogibanashi's and others.
Dec 21, 7pm; Dec 22, 6pm,
¥3,500 (adv)/ ¥4,000 (door).
Laforet Museum. Nearest
stn: Meiji-Jingumae.
www.dommune.com/
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Hikashu Christmas
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¥8,400. Blue Note. Nearest stn:
Omotesando. www.bluenote.
co.jp
Chucho Valdes & The
Afro-Cuban Jazz
Messengers
Feeling Latin jazz. Nov 27-29,
7 & 9:30pm, ¥8,400. Blue Note.
Nearest stn: Omotesando.
www.bluenote.co.jp
Raul Midon &
Ricard Bona
Jazz hero. Nov 30-Dec 1, 5
& 8pm; Dec 2, 7 & 9:30pm,
¥8,400. Blue Note. Nearest stn:
co.jp
Avant-pop ensemble and
guests. Until-Dec 23. 6pm,
¥4,000 (adv) +1d. Unit.
Nearest stn: Daikanyama.
Tel: 03-3444-6751. www.
smash-jpn.com
Juana Molina
The Cherry Cokes
Drunk Irish folk-punk septet.
Dec 23, 5:30pm, ¥2,999 (adv)
+1d. Akasaka Blitz. Nearest
stn: Akasaka. Tel: 03-34446751. www.smash-jpn.com
Guitarist Kazumi Watanabe
with Sadanori Nakamure. Dec
4, 7pm, ¥2,000-7,000. Mori no
Hall. Nearest stn: Hashimoto.
Tel: 042-775-3811. www.
hall-net.or.jp
Unborde Xmas Party
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu,
Tofubeats and more. Dec 23,
2pm, ¥4,900 (adv) +1d. Ex
Theater Roppongi. Nearest
stn: Roppongi or Nogizaka.
Tel: 03-3405-9999. www.
sogotokyo.com
Perfume
Pop princess trio. Dec
24-25, 6pm, ¥6,500 (adv).
Tokyo Dome. Nearest stn:
Suidobashi. Tel: 03-57209999. www.red-hot.ne.jp
Countdown Japan 13/14
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Puffy,
MUCC and others. Dec 28-30,
1pm; Dec 31, 3pm, ¥9,50010,500 (1 day)/ ¥18,00019,000 (2 days)/ ¥24,00025,000 (3 days)/ ¥29,500
(4 days). Makuhari Messe.
Nearest stn: Kaihin-Makuhari.
http://countdownjapan.jp
Lunkhead
Melodic J-rock quartet from
Aichi. Dec 29, 7:30pm, ¥3,500
(adv) +1d. Liquidroom. Nearest
stn: Ebisu. Tel: 050-5533-0888.
lunkhead.jp
Shikuramen
Funky J-pop trio. Dec 29, 6pm,
¥4,200-4,800 (adv). Zepp
Tokyo. Nearest stn: Aomi.
http://shikura.jp
Pay Money to My Pain
Jero
Traditional+
Alti Quartet & Paul Meyer
Bamboo wind instrument
shakuhachi virtuoso Dozan
Fujiwara performs and
discusses the history, present
and future of this traditional
piece. Dec 8, 4pm, ¥500-1,000.
Spiral Hall. Nearest stn:
Omotesando. http://meturl.
com/shakuhach2013
Roberta Flack
Classy and urbane soul singer
from North Carolina. Dec 11, 7
& 9:30pm; Dec 12, 7 & 9:30pm;
Dec 14-15, 5 & 8pm, ¥13,000
(adv). Blue Note. Nearest stn:
Omotesando. Tel: 03-54850088. www.bluenote.co.jp
Christmas Evening with
Till Brönner
Multi-talented jazz musician
influenced by modern
pop music. Dec 22-23, 5:30
& 8:30pm; Dec 24, 6:30 &
9:30pm, ¥8,400. Blue Note.
www.bluenote.co.jp
Incognito
Acid jazz unit from the UK. Dec
25, 6:30 & 9:30pm; Dec 26-27, 6
& 9pm, ¥8,400 (adv). Blue Note.
www.bluenote.co.jp
CLASSICAL
Orchestra Nipponica
Beethoven's last three
sonatas. Nov 26, 7pm, ¥5,00016,000. Suntory Hall. Nearest
stn: Roppongi-itchome.
Deutsche
Kammerphilharmonie
Pieces from Beethoven's
opera Fidelio. Nov 28, 7pm;
Nov 30, 3pm, ¥10,000-28,000.
Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall.
Nearest stn: Minatomirai. Tel:
045-682-2020.
Kazune Shimizu
American enka singer. Nov 23,
4pm, ¥5,500 (adv). Katsushika
Symphony Hills. Nearest
stn: Aoto. Tel: 03-5670-2233.
www.k-mill.gr.jp
Chopin and Liszt. Nov 28,
1:30pm, ¥5,000. Tokyo Opera
City Concert Hall. Nearest
stn: Shinjuku or Hatsudai.
Tel: 03-5353-9999 www.
operacity.jp
Merry Xmas Darling
Requiem
Laura Fygi & Band present
a holiday dinner and show
to remember. Dress code:
something red. Dec 22-26,
various times, ¥19,000-21,500
(adv, incl dinner). Cotton Club.
Nearest stn: Tokyo. www.
cottonclubjapan.co.jp
Duke Ellington Orchestra
One of the best known
bands of the 20th century
with guest Cecile McLorin
Salvant. Nov 23-24, 5 & 8pm,
Celtic Christmas
Requiem
Krystian Zimerman
Film music maestro. Nov
21-22, 7 & 9:30pm, ¥8,400.
Blue Note. Nearest stn:
co.jp
Songs and poems by
John Dowland, William
Shakespeare and
others. Dec 4, 7pm, ¥500
(students)/¥2,500 (gen).
Ishibashi Memorial
Hall. Nearest stn: Ueno.
[email protected]. www.
ishibashimemorial.com
Master × Master
Los Lonely Boys
Michel Legrand
Fine Knacks for Ladies
Irish accordionist. Dec 7,
5:30pm, ¥4,000-6,500. Sumida
Triphony Hall. Nearest stn:
Kinshicho. www.plankton.
co.jp/xmas13
Alternative J-rock. Dec 30,
7pm, ¥3,900 (adv)/ ¥5,000
+1d. Zepp Tokyo. Nearest
stn: Aomi. Tel: 03-3499-6669.
JAZZ/WORLD
Czech boys choir Boni Pueri.
Dec 4, 7pm, ¥5,000. Tokyo
Cathedral. Nearest stn:
Gokokuiji. www.arstokyo.
co.jp
Argentinian songstress. Dec 3,
7 & 9:30pm, ¥7,350. Blue Note.
www.bluenote.co.jp
Featuring conductor Ichiro
Nodaira. Nov 24, 2:30pm,
¥2,000-3,000. Kioi Hall.
Nearest stn: Yotsuya. Tel:
03-5276-4500. www.kioi-hall.
or.jp
American Chicano rock trio.
Dec 30, 7:30pm, ¥6,500 (adv)
+1d. Liquidroom. Nearest
stn: Ebisu. Tel: 03-3444-6751.
www.smash-jpn.com
Tokyo Cathedral
Christmas
Italian Orchestra E Coro Del
Teatro Regio plays a powerful
and emotional collection
of works by Verdi. Nov 30,
2pm, ¥8,100-25,000. Suntory
Hall. Nearest stn: Roppongiitchome. Tel: 03-5774-3040.
www.japanarts.co.jp
Piano Etoile Series vol.23
Recital by Yuma Osaki. Dec
1, 2pm, 1,000-3,500. Saitama
Arts Theater. Nearest stn:
Yonohonmachi. www.saf.
or.jp/en
Performed by Bach Collegium
Japan and conducted by
Masaaki Suzuki. Dec 7,
4pm, ¥3,000-8,000. Saitama
Yonohonmachi. www.saf.or.jp
Chamber music by Beethoven
and Brahms. Dec 8, 3pm,
¥2,000-6,000. Mori no Hall.
Nearest stn: Hashimoto. Tel:
042-775-3811. www.hall-net.
or.jp
Alti Quartet & Paul Meyer
Chamber music by Mozart and
Brahms. Dec 11, 7pm, ¥4,800.
Bunkyo Civic Hall. Nearest stn:
Korakuen. Tel: 03-5803-1100.
bunkyocivichall.jp
Tchaikovsky Serenade
Overture in C Minor
and other works, with a
post-performance champagne
reception. Dec 11, 7pm, ¥5,500
(group)/ ¥6,000 (single).
Oji Hall. Nearest stn: Ginza.
[email protected].
www.tokyosinfonia.com
Boni Pueri Christmas
"Silent Night," "Hallelujah" etc.
Dec 11, 6:30pm, ¥5,000. Tokyo
Bunka Kaikan. Nearest stn:
Ueno. www.arstokyo.co.jp
Krystian Zimerman
Beethoven's last three sonatas.
Dec 12, 7pm, ¥6,000-15,000.
Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall.
Nearest stn: Minatomirai. Tel:
045-682-2020.
Kiriku Handbell
Ensemble
One of the most well-known
contemporary handbell
groups in the world. Dec 13,
12:10pm, ¥1,000. Saitama
Yonohonmachi. www.saf.or.jp
Mariko Senju and Suk
Chamber Orchestra
Christmas Concert
"Ave Maria," "Joy of Love" and
other works. Dec 14, 1:30pm,
¥4,000-7,000. Tokyo Opera
City Concert Hall. Nearest stn:
Shinjuku or Hatsudai.
For Scotland
Traditional and contemporary
ballads, songs and poems. Dec
15, 2pm, ¥2,000 (students)/
¥4,000 (members)/ ¥5,000
(gen). Sengawa Avenue
Hall. Nearest stn: Sengawa.
japan-scotland,jp
Winter Picture Book
The New Japan Philharmonic
plays frost-themed songs.Dec
15, 6pm, ¥5,000-7,500. Sumida
Triphony Hall, Sumida-ku.
Nearest stn: Kinshicho. www.
triphony.com
Sergey Schepkin
American pianist. Dec 16,
7pm, ¥3,000-5,000. Sumida
Triphony Hall. Nearest stn:
Kinshicho. www.triphony.
com
Rafal Blechacz
Polish classical pianist
plays works by Beethoven,
Chopin and more. Dec 17,
7pm, ¥2,000-5,000. Saitama
LISTINGS
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LISTINGS LISTINGS
STAGE
while visiting various public
spaces, forming a story
in each area. Until Dec 8,
Noon-7pm, every hour,
¥1,000-3,500 (adv)/ ¥1,0004,000 (door). various venues
around Tokyo. www.festivaltokyo.jp/en/program/13
Don Quichotte du
Trocadéro
Urban dance combined with
burlesque and slapstick
comedy. Dec 13, 7pm; Dec
15, 2pm, ¥1,000-4,500.
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre.
Nearest stn: Ikebukuro. Tel:
03-5391-2111. www.geigeki.
jp/english
COURTESY OF TOKYO INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS
Night Must Fall
Tokyo's oldest expat theater troupe returns with the classic
1930s thriller Night Must Fall. Directed by Tokyo International
Players' Hannah Weakley, the Emlyn Williams murder
mystery follows the attempts of young Olivia to trace a killing
to a charismatic page boy who charms his way into the
household of Olivia's aunt—outside whose house the body
is found. Filled with suspense, romance and unexpected
humor, Night Must Fall was an instant hit on the West End and
Broadway. The play probes the psyche of a killer and asks
us to consider why certain people are likely to be forgiven of
almost any crime. TIP's production showcases an all-star cast
of expat veterans and newcomers.
Dec 5-6, 7pm; Dec 7, 1 & 7pm; Dec 8, 3pm, ¥2,500 (students)/
¥4,000 (adv)/ ¥4,500 (door). Theater Bonbon, Nakano.
Nearest stn: Nakano. www.tokyoplayers.org
Arts Theater. Nearest
stn: Yonohonmachi. Tel:
0570-064-939. www.saf.or.jp
Christmas Gospel
Holiday classics sung by Glory
Gospel Singers. Dec 17, 7pm,
¥5,000-6,500. Sumida Triphony
Hall. Nearest stn: Kinshicho.
www.triphony.com
Vienna Glass Harmonica
Duo
Schubert, Mozart and more.
Dec 21, 4pm, ¥2,000-11,000.
Kioi Hall. Nearest stn: Yotsuya.
Tel: 03-5276-4500. www.
kioi-hall.or.jp
Twilight Special
Organist Mineko Kojima and
lutenist Akiko Sato. Dec 21,
5pm, free. Saitama Arts Theater.
Nearest stn: Yonohonmachi.
saf.or.jp
Daimaru Charity Concert
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony
Orchestra performs works
by Beethoven. Dec 22,
2pm, ¥1,000-6,000. Tokyo
Metropolitan Theatre. Nearest
stn: Ikebukuro. Tel: 03-53912111. www.geigeki.jp/english
Stage
No Time to Wait
A silly comedy about life and
penguins, presented by Tokyo
International Players Second
Stage. Nov 22, 7pm; Nov 23, 1 &
7pm; Nov 24, 1 & 6pm, ¥1,0003,000. Theater Brats. Nearest
stn: Shinjuku Sanchome.
Tel: 03-3353-1868. www.
notimetowait.org
The Long Field Trip
Timeless observations of man
versus nature. Japanese with
English subtitles. Until Nov 25,
various times, ¥3,500 (adv)/
¥4,000 (door). Nishi-Sugamo
Arts Factory. Nearest stn:
Nishi-Sugamo or ShinKoshinzuka. Tel: 03-5961-5200.
www.festival-tokyo.jp/en
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Opera fantastique by Jacques
Offenbach. Nov 28 & Dec 4,
6:30pm; Dec 1, 7 & 10, 2pm,
¥1,500-21,000. New National
Theatre Tokyo. Nearest stn:
Hatsudai. Tel: 03-5352-9999.
www.nntt.jac.go.jp/opera
Current Location
Post-Fukushima fable by
Toshiki Okada. Japanese
with English subtitles. Nov
28-Dec 8, various times, ¥4,000
(adv)/ ¥4,500 (door). Tokyo
stn: Ikebukuro. Tel: 03-53912111. www.festival-tokyo.jp/en
Tosca
Teatro Regio Torino performs
Puccini's Tosca. Nov 29, & Dec
5, 6:30pm; Dec 2 & 8, 3pm,
¥10,000-41,000. Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan. Nearest stn: Ueno. Tel:
03-5774-3040. www.japanarts.
co.jp
The Coming Storm
A cross-cut of multiple stories
by innovate British company.
English with Japanese
subtitles. Nov 29, 7:30pm; Nov
30, noon & 6pm; Dec 1, noon,
¥4,500 (adv)/ ¥5,000 (door).
Nishi-Sugamo Arts Factory.
Nearest stn: Nishi-Sugamo
or Shin- Koshinzuka. Tel:
03-5961-5200. www.festivaltokyo.jp/en
The Qlobe of Life II
Performance that links
pedigree to humans, not just
animals. Japanese with English
subtitles. Nov 29, 7:30pm; Nov
30, 2 & 7:30pm; Dec 1, 2pm,
¥2,500 (adv)/ ¥3,000 (door).
Asahi Art Square. Nearest stn:
Asakusa. Tel: 090-9118-5171.
www.festival-tokyo.jp/en
Gamarjobat
Award-winning comedy
performance group. Nov
30, 1pm, ¥4,500. Shibuya
Kokaido. Nearest stn: Shibuya.
Tel: 0570-00-3337. www.
gamar-jack.com
A Masked Ball
Teatro Regio Torino performs
Verdi's operatic tale of murder
and deceit. Dec 1, 3pm, ¥3,00043,000. Tokyo Bunka Kaikan.
Nearest stn: Ueno. Tel: 03-57743040. www.japanarts.co.jp
Primitive Opera—
Momotaro
Punk opera adaptation of
classic Japanese folk tale. Dec
2, 3 & 7:30pm, ¥2,000 (adv)/
¥2,300 (door). Morishita Studio
B. Nearest stn: Morishita.
Tel: kiki.arts.project@gmail.
com. http://meturl.com/
primitivemomo
Ganesh Versus the Third
Reich
Australian Back to Back
Theatre presents a story rich
with imagery and mythology.
English with Japanese
subtitles. Dec 6, 7pm; Dec
7, 3pm; Dec 8, 2pm, ¥4,500
stn: Ikebukuro. Tel: 03-53912111. www.festival-tokyo.jp/en
Tokyo Heterotopia
"Tour" theater experience
where participants become a
part of the show. Visitors will
follow a recorded narrative
La Bohème
Isango Ensemble's
perspective of one of the
world's most popular operas.
Dec 19, 6:30pm; Dec 20, 2pm;
Dec 21, 2 & 6:30pm; Dec 22,
2pm, ¥1,000-8,400. Tokyo
stn: Ikebukuro. Tel: 0570-010296. www.geigeki.jp
Dance
Dancing Girl
Fusion of traditional and
contemporary Indian
dance. Nov 26, 5pm; Nov
27, 2 & 7:30pm, ¥2,000
(adv)/ ¥2,500 (door).
Theater Green. Nearest stn:
Ikebukuro. www.festivaltokyo.jp/en
Sacred Monsters
Contemporary and classical
dance fusion. Nov 28-29,
7pm; Nov 30-Dec 1, 3pm,
¥4,000-15,000. U-Port Hall.
Nearest stn: Osaki-Hirokoji.
Tel: 03-3791-8888. www.
nbs.or.jp/english
Dance to the Future:
Second Steps
The NBJ Choreographic
Group performs
contemporary ballet. Dec
7-8, 2pm, ¥3,150-5,250. New
National Theatre Tokyo.
Nearest stn: Hatsudai. Tel:
03-5352-9999. www.nntt.
jac.go.jp/english
Rabid Romantic
Rhapsody
Troupe of 15 college
dancers choreographed by
Akiyo Fukami. Dec 12-13, 1
& 7pm, ¥3,000-3,300 (adv)/
¥3,500-3,800 (door). Asahi
Art Square. Nearest stn:
Asakusa. Tel: 090-91185171. http://haikara2001.
com/akiyogeneration
The Kabuki
The Tokyo Ballet performs
the tale of 47 Ronin.
Dec14-15, 3pm, ¥2,00010,000. Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan. Nearest stn: Ueno.
nbs.or.jp/english
Traditional Performing
Arts × Street Dance
High school street dancers
collaborate with tsugaru
shamisen artist Hiromitsu
Agatsuma and group Dazzle.
Dec 14, 1 & 4pm ¥2,0003,000. Nippori Sunny Hall,
5-50-5 Higashi-nippori,
Arakawa-ku. Nearest stn:
Nippori. http://meturl.com/
traditionstreet2013
The Nutcracker
Tchaikovsky's classic
Christmas ballet. Dec
17-18 & 20, 7pm; Dec 21,
2 & 7pm; Dec 22-23, 2pm,
¥3,150-12,600. New National
Theatre Tokyo. Nearest stn:
Hatsudai. Tel: 03-5352-9999.
www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english
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FRIDAY 22
Ageha
Fever. Hip-hop
DJs Masterkey, Supa Twitch,
etc: Live: Zeebra. From 11pm,
(m)¥3,500, (f)¥2,000. Nearest
stn: Shin-Kiba. www.ageha.
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CLUBBING
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chk” or, apparently, any
other thrice-repeated
monosyllable) have
been injecting funk into
indie since the late ‘90s
and are bringing their
self-proclaimed “best
live act around” to Japan
for Beatink’s annual
thumpfest Electraglide.
Affably deranged
frontman Nic Offer told
Metropolis the American group never had a grand plan to
change music, but just keep on doing their thing. Head out
to Chiba to see what that thing is and hear tracks from their
April release Th!!!ler—they dub it their “one with all the hits on
it”—and a brand-new EP, R!M!X!S, available in CD-form only in
Japan. The rave boasts current electro-darling James Blake
as headliner, but for a seriously upbeat tonic, !!! are the ones
to get your hips moving in the cavernous Chiba venue on the
night. David Labi
Makuhari Messe, Nov 29, 8pm. ¥8,800 (adv)/ ¥9,800 (door).
Nearest stn: Makuhari Messe.www.electraglide.info
Courtesy of Beatink
Reboot. Techno: DJs Qhey,
Mayuri, etc. From 10pm,
¥3,000. Nearest stn: Shibuya.
www.air-tokyo.com
Module
Wonder Night. Hip-hop: DJs
Full-Rpt, Timer, etc. From
11pm, ¥2,000 w/1d. Nearest
stn: Shibuya. www.moduletokyo.com
Ruby Room
Neet Spirit. '90s music: DJs
Timutaku, Special K, etc.
From 7:30pm, ¥1,000 w/2d.
rubyroomtokyo.com
Sound Museum Vision
Transition. From midnight,
¥3,000 (ladies)/ ¥3,500 (men).
clubberia.com/en/events
The New Matrix Bar
Matrix Friday. Old school
hip-hop, west side, south
side, all mix
DJ Ykk and more. From
6pm, ¥1,000 (after 11:30pm).
Nearest stn: Roppongi. www.
matrixbar.jp
The Room
Champ. Funk, jazz: DJs
Tominaga, Oibon, etc.
From 10pm, ¥2,500 w/1d.
theroom.jp
Unit
Vortex. Acid sounds: DJs
Ray Castle, Masa, etc. From
11pm, ¥3,000. Nearest
unit-tokyo.com
Velours
Hide & Seek. DJs Fujiko,
Maxwell, etc. From 7pm,
¥3,000 w/1d. Nearest stn:
Omotesando. Tel: 03-57784777. www.velours.jp
Womb
Love & House World.
Edm: DJs Dantz, Takuya,
etc. From 10pm, ¥3,500.
Love & House World 10th
Anniversary X Green Valley.
From 10pm, ¥3,500. Nearest
stn: Shibuya. Tel: 03-54590039. loveandhouse.net/
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Ikura
Intersection
Onarimon
Station
Sakurada Dori
Tokyo Tower
5 minutes walk
Kamiyacho
Station
Tel: 03-3433-6321
Open: Mon-Fri 10am - 5pm / Sat 10 am - 4pm
10-13, 5 chome Toranomon Minato-ku Tokyo
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SATURDAY 23
Ageha
The Wonderland. Edm, dub
step: DJs Kentaro, Taku, etc.
stn: Shin-Kiba. www.ageha.
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Sound Museum Vision
Nylon Japan. House, electro:
DJs Delphic, Tanaka, etc.
From 10pm, (m)¥3,500 w/1d,
(f)¥2,500 w/1d. Nearest stn:
Shibuya. www.vision-tokyo.
com
The New Matrix Bar
Saturday Night Fever. Hip-hop,
R&B, reggae: DJ Ykk and more.
From 6pm, ¥1,000 (after 10pm).
matrixbar.jp
The Room
Jazztronica. House, jazz: DJs
Nozaki, Shuya Okino(Kyoto
Jazz Massive), etc. From 10pm,
Shibuya. www.theroom.jp
Unit
It Girl. All mix: DJ Shimo. From
7pm, ¥2,500 w/1d. Nearest
stn: Shibuya. www.moduletokyo.com
Ruby Room
Rock House Dance. Rock, house:
DJs Various DJs. From 8pm,
free. Nearest stn: Shibuya.
www.rubyroomtokyo.com
Velours
L-op x Wagon. DJs Michi,
Hiroyuki, etc. From 11pm,
Omotesando. Tel: 03-57784777. www.velours.jp
Womb
Hedonist’s Sambhala. House,
techno: DJs Housecat, Terubi,
etc. From 10pm, ¥1,500 w/1d.
Nearest stn: Shibuya. Tel:
03-5459-0039. www.womb.
co.jp
TUESDAY 26
Air
Broad. Techno, house: DJs
Haruka, Tatsuoki, etc. From
10pm, ¥2,500 w/1d. Nearest stn:
Shibuya. www.air-tokyo.com
Module
Sub:stance. Techno: DJ Rosso.
From 11pm, ¥1,500 w/1d.
module-tokyo.com
Ruby Room
Open Mic. Open Mic. From
Shibuya. www.rubyroomtokyo.
com
Womb
Tuemix. Edm, house: DJs Alpha
One, Zun, etc. From 10pm,
(m)¥1,500, (f)free. Nearest stn:
Shibuya. Tel: 03-5459-0039.
www.womb.co.jp
WEDNESDAY 27
Future Terror. Acid sounds: DJs
Metasplice, Diskonnected, etc.
unit-tokyo.com
Module
Velours
The Room
Village
Village
Black Room. DJs Hirose, Hirai,
etc. From 10pm, ¥3,000 w/1d.
Nearest stn: Omotesando. Tel:
03-5778-4777. www.velours.jp
Grand Slam. Hip-hop: DJs
Nuckey, Kekke, etc. From
10pm, (m)¥3,000 w/1d,
(f)¥2,000 w/2d. Nearest stn:
Azabu-Juban or Roppongi.
Tel: 03-6230-0343. www.
villagetokyo.com
Womb
Loco Dice. Techno: DJ Loco
Dice and more. From 11pm,
¥3,500. Nearest stn: Shibuya.
Tel: 03-5459-0039. www.
womb.co.jp
SUNDAY 24
Ruby Room
Cat House. Rock: DJs Take,
Ucky, etc. From 7pm, ¥2,000
w/1d. Nearest stn: Shibuya.
The Room
Yuragi. House: DJs Kiichiro,
Gara, etc. From midnight,
Village
Sunday Tribe. Hip-hop: DJs
Kango, Hokuto, etc. From
10pm, (m)¥2,000 w/1d, (f)free.
Nearest stn: Azabu-Juban or
Roppongi. Tel: 03-6230-0343.
www.villagetokyo.com
Womb
Ura 100bpm. All good music:
DJs Julia, Yumiko, etc. From
6pm, free. Nearest stn: Shibuya.
www.module-tokyo.com
Disco Viking. Bar style: DJs
33queen, Kajitsu, etc. From
midnight, free. Nearest stn:
Fire Pool. Hip-hop: DJs Ken-Ske,
8man, etc. From 10pm, ¥2,000
w/1d. Nearest stn: Azabu-Juban
or Roppongi. Tel: 03-6230-0343.
www.villagetokyo.com
Womb
Wedm. Electro, house: DJs
Hiroki, Ikezawa, etc. From
10pm, (m)¥1,500, (f) free.
Nearest stn: Shibuya. Tel:
03-5459-0039. www.womb.
co.jp
THURSDAY 28
Village
Celebration. Hip-hop: DJs Sah,
Yaz, etc. From 11pm, (m)¥2,000
w/1d, (f)¥1,000 w/2d. Nearest
stn: Azabu-Juban or Roppongi.
Tel: 03-6230-0343. www.
villagetokyo.com
Womb
Sensual. Deep tech house, tech
house: DJs Wakasa, Fumi, etc.
stn: Shibuya. Tel: 03-5459-0039.
www.womb.co.jp
FRIDAY 29
Ageha
Turned On. Edm: DJs Dirty
South, Vivid, etc. From 11pm,
¥4,000. Nearest stn: Shin-Kiba.
www.ageha.com
Air
Clued Up? Techno DJs Caolu,
Tomoki, etc: Live: Keikoto Band.
From midnight, ¥2,500. Nearest
www.womb.co.jp
MONDAY 25
A Night with Horse Meat Disco.
House, disco: DJs Horse Meat
Disco, Takimi, etc. From 10pm,
Module
Air
Module
Mark E. House, techno: DJs
Mark E, Ageishi, etc. From
10pm, ¥3,500. Nearest stn:
R20. House: DJs Ikeda, Red,
etc. From 10pm, ¥3,000
Funktion. Techno, house: DJs
Sunahara, Kyoko, etc. From
Air
Arouse. Techno, house: DJ Junn
and more. From 10pm, ¥2,500
LISTINGS FOR COMPLETE LISTINGS
CHRISTMAS MARKET
Swedish
Christmas
Bazaar
Idemitsu Museum
of Arts
Join Swedes and
other Nordic folk
for a selection of
Scandinavian treats,
traditional mulled
wine and handicrafts
at this outdoor charity fair. Saint Lucia, patron saint of the blind,
brings light (via a crown adorned with candles) and song to the
festivities alongwith a children’s choir of taernor, stjaerngossar
and other unpronouncable characters. Organized by SWEA,
a Swedish women's group with chapters all over the world,
all proceeds from the market will go to the rebuilding of the
Tohoku area.
Dec 1, 11am-4pm, ¥500. Embassy Of Sweden, 1-10-3-100
Roppongi. Nearest stn: Roppongi-Itchome or Kamiyacho.
Tel: 03-5562-5050. www.swedenabroad.com/en-GB/
Embassies/Tokyo
The Room
Global Rhythms. Hip-hop: DJs
Shark, Sancon, etc. From 10pm,
Unit
Artemis. Techno, house DJs
Vincent Lemieux, Moodman,
etc. From 11pm, ¥3,000. Nearest
unit-tokyo.com
Islands and the Akita Region.
Documentation of pre-war
rural life. Until Dec 27, free.
Open daily 10am-7pm. 9-7-3
Akasaka, Roppongi. Nearest
stn: Roppongi. Tel: 03-62713350. fujifilmsquare.jp/en
Mori Art Museum
Defected. House: DJs Simon
Dunmore, Emma, etc. From
Shibuya. Tel: 03-5459-0039.
www.womb.co.jp
Out of Doubt: Roppongi Crossing
2013. Contemporary art series
held triennially. A fresh look
at a familiar intersection to
most Tokyoites. Until Jan
13, ¥500-1,500. Open Mon &
Wed-Sun 10am-10pm, Tue
10am-5pm. 6-10-1 Roppongi.
mori.art.museum
UPCOMING
Mori Arts Center Gallery
Womb
Air
Eden. Deep house, disco: DJs
Force of Nature, Maeda, etc.
Nov 30, from 11pm, ¥3,000.
air-tokyo.com
Module
Relation. Melodic techno: DJs
Sola, Kohey, etc. Nov 30, from
Shibuya. www.module-tokyo.
com
Ruby Room
Echo Patrol. DJs Yanomi, Izpon,
etc. Nov 30, from 11pm, ¥1,500
Sound Museum Vision
Independent. Techno, tech
house: DJs Umek, Ken Ishii, etc.
Nov 30, from 10pm, (m)¥3,500
w/1d, (f)¥3,000 w/1d. Nearest
stn: Shibuya. www.visiontokyo.com
The Room
Jazzbrothers on the Corner.
House, jazz: DJs Yama,
Takehana, etc. Nov 30, from
Womb
The Yes. Techno, house: DJs
Boston Bun, Osawa, etc. Nov
30, from 11pm, ¥3,500. Nearest
www.womb.co.jp
Exhibitions
AKASAKA/ROPPONGI
21_21 Design Sight
Toward a Design Museum
Japan. Mixed media. Until
Feb 2, ¥500-1,000. Open
Mon & Wed-Sun 11am-8pm,
closed Tue. 9-7-6 Akasaka,
Minato-ku. Nearest stn:
Nogizaka. Tel: 03-3475-2121.
www.2121designsight.jp
Fujifilm Square
Ihee Kimura's Travels to Akita
and the Ryukyu Islands.
Photographer's documentation
of pre- and post-war Japan.
Until Dec 27, free. Life-Capturing
Wildlife in Photos. Four
photographers capture the
majesty of wild animals in
their natural habitats. Until
Dec 4, free. Two Journeys of
Ihei Kimura — The Ryukyu
Bldg, 7-7-2 Ginza. Nearest stn:
Ginza. www.tokyo.mae.lu/jp/
node_19876/hana-hito-tokyo
Ever and Never: The Art of
Peanuts. Original drawings
and sketches of Snoopy &
co. Until Jan 5, ¥500-2,000.
52F Roppongi Hills Tower,
6-10-1 Roppongi. Nearest stn:
Roppongi. www.roppongihills.
com/art/macg/
Suntory Museum of Art
Celestial Dance: The Art of Hiten.
Relics and religious artefacts
on display in commemoration
of the renovations of Byodoin's
Phoenix Hall. Nov 23-Jan 13,
¥800-1,300. Open Wed-Sat
10am-8pm, Sun-Mon & hols
10am-6pm, closed Tue. 9-7-4
Akasaka, Minato-ku. Nearest
stn: Roppongi. www.suntory.
jp/sma
The National Art Center,
Tokyo
Divisionism from Van Gogh
and Seurat to Mondrian.
Oil paintings. Until Dec 23,
¥800-1,500. The Japan Fine Arts
Exhibition. Mixed media. Recent
works with traditional themes.
Until Dec 8, ¥500-1,200. Open
Wed-Mon 10am-6pm, closed
Tue. 7-22-2 Roppongi. Nearest
stn: Roppongi. www.nact.jp
GINZA/KYOBASHI/
TOKYO
Bridgestone Museum of
Art
Gustave Caillebotte. Oil
paintings. Until Dec 29, ¥1,0001,500. Gustave Caillbotte—
Impressionist in Modern
Paris. Works by a leading
member and supporter of the
Impressionist movement. Until
Dec 29, ¥1,000-1,500. Open
Tue-Sun & hols 10am-8pm,
closed Mon. 1-10-1 Kyobashi,
Chuo-ku. Nearest stn: Tokyo.
Tel: 03-5777-8600. www.
bridgestone-museum.gr.jp
Craft Gallery, The National
Museum of Modern Art
Close Up Crafts. Mixed media.
Until Dec 8, ¥300-500.
Open Tue-Thu 10am-5pm,
Fri 10am-8pm, Sat-Sun
10am-5pm. 1-1 Kitanomarukoen Chiyoda-Ku. Nearest stn:
Takebashi. Tel: 03-5777-8600.
www.momat.go.jp/english
Ginza Graphic Gallery
Jan Tschichold. Typography.
Until Nov 26, free. Open Mon-Fri
11am-7pm, Sat 11am-6pm,
closed Sun & hols. 1F Ginza
The Kano School in Edo—
Innovation toward Elegance.
Traditional Japanese
paintings with an innovative
style. Until Dec 15, ¥700-1,000.
Fri 10am-7pm, closed
Mon. 9F Teigeki Bldg, 3-1-1
Marunouchi. Nearest stn:
Tokyo. www.idemitsu.co.jp/
museum
Mitsubishi Ichigokan
Museum
Masterpieces from the
Collection of Mitsubishi
Ichigokan Museum. Works by
Renoir, Vallotton, ToulouseLautrec and more. Until
Jan 5, ¥400-1,200. Wed-Fri
10am-8pm, Tue, Sat & Sun/
hols 10am-6pm, closed Mon.
2-6-2 Marunouchi. Nearest
stn: Tokyo. Tel: 03-54058686. www.mimt.jp
Mitsui Memorial
Museum
Momoyama Ceramic
Masterpieces. Exquisite
tea bowls, incense cases
and more. Until Nov 24,
¥700-1,200. 7F Mitsui Main
Bldg, 2-1-1 NihombashiMuromachi, Chuo-ku.
Nearest stn: Mitsukoshimae.
Tel: 03-5777-8600. www.
mitsui-museum.jp
Mitsuo Aida Museum
Even Just One Thing. 10th
anniversary special display
of the calligraphy artist Aida's
most important works. Until
Dec 15, ¥200-800. Open
Tue-Sun 10am-5:30pm,
closed Mon. B1 Tokyo
International Forum Glass
Bldg, 3-5-1 Marunouchi,
Chiyoda-ku. Tel: 03-62123200. www.mitsuo.co.jp
National Film Center
Japanese Film Heritage.
Permanent collection of
works from the National Film
Center. Until Apr 3, ¥40-200.
Iconography of Yasujiro
Ozu Films. A collection
of paintings, design and
lettering that sheds light on
Mr. Ozu's unique aesthetic
sensibility. Dec 12-Mar 30,
¥40-200. Open Tue-Sun
11am-6:30pm, closed Mon.
3-7-6 Kyobashi. Nearest stn:
Kyobashi. www.momat.go.jp
National Museum of
Modern Art Tokyo
Josef Koudelka Retrospective.
Photography. Artist's first
exhibit in Asia displays his
entire body of work. Until
Jan 13, ¥250-850. Product
Design Today: Creating "Made
in Japan". Presentation of
works by contemporary
designers. Until Jan 13,
¥70-420. Open Tue-Thu
& Sat-Sun 10am-5pm, Fri
10am-8pm. 3-7-6 Kyobashi.
Nearest stn: Takebashi. www.
momat.go.jp
Zeit-Foto Salon
Hong Kong - Shenzen
1998. Rudai Takano's
documentation of travels
in China. Until Dec 21, free.
Open Tue-Fri 10:30am6:30pm, Sat 10:30am5:30pm, closed Sun-Mon &
hols. 4F Matsumoto Bldg,
1-10-5 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku.
Nearest stn: Tokyo. Tel:
03-3535-7188. www.zeit-foto.
com
HARAJUKU/
AOYAMA
Diesel Art Gallery
Global Photo Collaborations:
Vice Japan. Photography.
Nov 22-Feb 14, free. Open
daily 11:30am-9pm. 1-23-16
Shibuya. Nearest stn: Shibuya.
www.diesel.co.jp/art/
Nezu Museum
Ido Tea Bowls: Treasured
Possessions of Muromachi
Daimyo. Ceramics from the
Korean peninsula adored by
Japanese tea masters. Until
Dec 15, ¥800-1,200. Tue-Sun,
10am-4:30pm. 6-5-1 MinamiAoyama, Minato-ku. Nearest
stn: Omotesando. www.
nezu-muse.or.jp/en
Spiral
Tape Tokyo. Numen for Use's
tape installation on exhibit
at Spiral. Nov 25-Dec 4, free.
Open daily 11am-8pm. 5-6-23
Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku.
03-3498-1171. www.spiral.co.jp
Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial
Museum of Art
Comical Ukiyo-e: Humorous
Pictures and the School of
Kuniyoshi. Art with a laugh
in old Oedo. Until Nov 26,
¥700-1,000. Open Tue-Sun
10:30am-5:30pm, closed Mon.
1-10-10 Jingumae. Nearest stn:
Harajuku. www.ukiyoe-otamuse.jp
SHIBUYA/EBISU
Bunkamura Gallery
My Theater 2013. Oil paintings.
Nov 30-Dec 11, free. Bunkamura
Winter Craft Collection. Seasonal
handicrafts, trinkets and
sundries. Dec 14-25, free.
Open daily, 10am-7pm. 2- 24-1
Dogenzaka. Nearest stn:
Shibuya. www.bunkamura.
co.jp/english
Bunkamura: The Museum
Arcadia on the Shore: Puvis
de Chavanne's Mythic World.
Mural painter that combined
innovation with classical
style. Jan 2-Mar 9, ¥700-1,400..
Open Mon-Thu & Sun
10am-7pm, Fri-Sat 10am-8pm.
2- 24-1 Dogenzaka. Nearest stn:
Shibuya. Tel: 03-3477-9111.
www.bunkamura.co.jp
Meguro Museum of Art
Yukio Tsuchiya. Performance
art and design. Until Dec 8,
¥500. Tsuchiya Yukio - Artist,
Designer, Educator. Pre and
post-war paintings and designs
by Tsuchiya Yukio. Until Dec
8, ¥300-500. Open Tue-Sun
10am-6pm, closed Mon. 2-4-36
Meguro. Nearest stn: Meguro.
Tel: 03-3714-1201. www.
mmat.jp
Tokyo Metropolitan
Museum of Photography
Nagi no Hira - Fragments of Calm.
A selection of 50 years' worth
of photographs by Issei Suda.
Until Dec 1, ¥400-600. Open
Tue-Wed & Sat-Sun 10am-6pm,
Thu-Fri 10am-8pm, closed Mon.
1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku. Nearest
stn: Ebisu. syabi.com
SHINJUKU/
IKEBUKURO
Hiromart Gallery
Dangerous Whisper: Um.
Paintings and collages by
Zdravko Toic. Until Dec 1,
free. Open Wed-Sun 1-7pm,
closed Mon-Tue. 1-30-7
Sekiguchi, Bunkyo-ku. Nearest
stn: Edogawabashi. www.
hiromartgallery.com
NTT Intercommunication
Center
Open Space 2013. A melting pot
of artists and media. Until Mar
2, free. 4F Tokyo Opera City
Tower, 3-20-2 Nishi-Shinjuku.
Nearest stn: Hatsudai. www.
ntticc.or.jp
Sompo Japan Museum of
Art
Quintet: Five-Star Artists.
Mixed media by five Japanese
artists, based on the theme
"landscape". Jan 11-Feb 16,
¥300-500. Tue-Sun, 10am-6pm,
closed Mon. 42F Sompo Japan
Bldg, 1-26-1 Nishi-Shinjuku.
Nearest stn: Shinjuku.
Tel: 03-5405-8686. www.
sompo-japan.co.jp/museum
Tokyo Opera City Art
Gallery
150 Years of Modern Japanese
Music. Mixed media. Dynamic
view of Japan's meeting
with the West. Until Dec 23,
¥600-1,000. Project N 54 -
Mihoko Ogaki. Mixed media.
Until Dec 23, ¥600-1,000.
Fri-Sat 11am-8pm. 3-20-2
Nishi-Shinjuku. Nearest stn:
Hatsudai. www.operacity.jp/
en/ag
UENO
DEC 18, 20-23
National Museum of
Nature and Science
Big Dinosaurs: Wonders of the
Gobi Desert. Velociraptor and
tarbosaurus bones unravel
mysteries of Earth's history.
Until Feb 23, ¥600-1,500. Open
Tue-Thu & Sat-Sun 9am-5pm,
Fri 9am-8pm, closed Mon.
7-20 Ueno Park. Nearest stn:
Ueno. Tel: 03-3822-0111. www.
kahaku.go.jp
The National Museum of
Western Art
Monet, An Eye for Landscapes:
Innovation in 19th Century
French Landscape. Some of the
artist's most famous works,
including "Water Lilies". Dec
7-Mar 9, ¥600-1,400. Open
daily 9:30am-5:30pm. 7-7 Ueno
Park. Nearest stn: Ueno. www.
nmwa.go.jp
The University Art
Museum
The National Treasure
Butto of Yakushi Nyorai and
Masterpieces from Kohfukuji.
Wooden sculptures and bronze
Buddha heads. Until Nov 24,
¥800-1,500. Open Tue-Sun
10am-5pm, closed Mon. 12-8
Ueno Park. Nearest stn: Ueno.
www.geidai.ac.jp/museum
Tokyo Metropolitan Art
Museum
Turner from the Tate: the Making
of a Master. British romantic
landscape paintings. Until
Dec 18, ¥600-3,200. Field of
Painting. Mixed media. Five
artists connect to the outside
world. Jan 4-10, free. 8-36 Ueno
Park. Nearest stn: Ueno. www.
tobikan.jp
Tokyo National Museum
From Kyoto, Inside and Outside:
Scenes on Panels and Folding
Screens. Depictions of symbolic
locations around Kyoto,
including Ryoanji temple, the
Kyoto Imperial Palace, and Nijo
Castle. Until Dec 1, ¥900-1,500.
Calligraphy of the Qing Dynasty:
The Stele School. Works by
calligraphy masters focusing
on the study of epigraphs. Until
Dec 1, ¥400-600. Open Tue-Sun
9:30am-5pm. 13-9 Ueno Park.
Nearest stn: Ueno. www.tnm.jp
OTHER AREAS
Museum of Contemporary
Art Tokyo
Crystallize. Mixed media
by Tokujin Yoshioka. Until
Jan 19, ¥600-1,100. Bunny
Smash: Design to Touch the
World. Multimedia. Design
focused on changing people's
perception of society. Until
Jan 19, ¥600-1,100. Tue-Sun,
10am-6pm, closed Mon. 4-1-1
Miyoshi, Koto-ku. Nearest stn:
Kiyosumi-shirakawa. www.
mot-art-museum.jp/eng
National Museum of
Japanese History
Documents from Medieval
Japan: Functions and
Styles. Political power shift
from nobles to samurai
represented through official
correspondence and records.
Until Dec 1, ¥450-830. Japanese
Lacquerware Overseas II-Export
Lacquer in the Edo Period.
Items shipped from the exotic
Orient to the West. Until Dec
1, ¥250-420. A Tradition of
Chrysanthemums. A variety of
living chrysanthemums. Until
Dec 1, ¥100. Open Tue-Sun
9:30am-4:30pm, closed Mon.
117 Jonai-cho, Sakura-shi.
Nearest stn: Keisei-Sakura.
www.rekihaku.ac.jp/english
Pola Museum of Art
Walk Home in Delight.
Photography. Images of a
Scandinavian white Christmas.
Until Dec 25, free. 9am-4:30pm.
1285 Kozukayama,
Kodo One Earth Tour
2013: Mystery
Taiko performance, the
second work directed by
artistic director Tamasaburo
Bando. Dec 18, KAAT
Kanagawa Arts Theatre,
Yokohama 6:30pm, Nearest
stn: Nihon Odori or Kannai.
Dec 20-23, Bunkyo Civic
Hall, Tokyo. S-seats ¥7,000,
A-seats ¥5,000, Students
¥3,000. Nearest stn:
Korakuen or Kasuga. Tel:
0259-86-3630. http://www.
kodo.or.jp
Sengokuhara, Hakone-machi.
Nearest stn: Gora. www.
polamuseum.or.jp
Saita Museum
Tea Bowls and Calligraphy
by Zen Priests of Daitokuji.
Ceramics from the collections
of Aizu Museum, Waseda
University. Until Dec 13,
¥500. Mon-Fri 10am-1pm,
2pm-4:30pm, Closed Sat-Sun &
hols. 3-23-35 Daita Setagaya-ku,
Tokyo. Nearest stn: Setagaya
Daita. Tel: 03-3414-1006.
Snow Contemporary XYZ
Collective
Awes for the Cosmic. Sculptures
and standing pieces by Riyoo
Kim. Until Dec 1, 12pm-8pm
Mon, Wed-Fri, closed Tue. 1F
2-30-20 Tsurumaki. Nearest stn:
Komazawa Daigaku. Tel: 050
1148 7964. www.officekubota.
com/snowcontemporary
Taro Okamoto Museum of
Art, Kawasaki
Kayo - Illustrations by Taro
Okamoto. Lesser known
illustration work for a
serialized novel in the
Tokyo Shinbun. Until Dec
27, ¥300-600. Faces and
Masks. Paintings. Until Jan
13, ¥300-900. Open Tue-Sun
9:30am-5pm, closed Mon. 7-1-5
Masukata, Tama-ku, Kawasaki.
Nearest stn: Mukogaoka-Yuen.
Tel: 04-4900-9898. www.
taromuseum.jp/english/
index_english.html
The French Institute
Kyoto Notebook. Paintings
by virtuoso cartoonist and
storyteller of strange stories,
Nicolas de Crécy. Until
Nov 24, free. 15 Ichigaya
Funagawara-cho. Nearest stn:
Iidabashi. Tel: 03-5206-2500.
www.institutfrancais.jp/tokyo
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
Impressionists at WatersideDepicting urban resorts: Paris,
the Seine and Normandy.
Painting. Portraying the lives of
19th-century french urbanites'
pursuit of leisure. Until Jan
5, ¥300-1,200. 10am-5pm
Tue-Sun, closed Mon.
Yano-machi 492-1 Hachioji.
Nearest stn: Tokyo Fuji
Bijitsukan. Tel: 042-691-4511.
www.fujibi.or.jp/en
Sports
BASEBALL
Yokohama DeNA Baystars
Fan Festival
Nov 23, 11pm, ¥300. Yokohama
Stadium. Nearest stn: Kannai.
Tel: 04-5661-1251.
BASKETBALL
Basketball Japan League
Saitama Broncos vs.
Takamatsu Five Arrows.
Dec 21-22, 6pm, ¥900-2,800.
Tokorozawa City Gymnasium.
Nearest stn: Shintokorozawa.
Tel: 04-2991-1181.
More game and ticket info at
www.bj-league.com
Agenda Listings
National Basketball
League
Hitachi

Sun Rockers
Tokyo vs. Toshiba Brave
Thunders. Nov 22, 7:15pm,
¥1,000-2,000. Yoyogi
National Gymnasium.
Nearest stn: Meiji-Jingumae.
Hitachi

Sun Rockers
Tokyo vs. Hyogo Storks.
Feb 9, 3pm, ¥1,000-2,500.
Sumida City Gymnasium.
Nearest stn: Kinshicho. Tel:
03-3623-7273.
Hitachi

Sun Rockers
Tokyo vs. Wakayama Trians.
Feb 8, 6pm, ¥1,000-2,500.
Sumida City Gymnasium.
Nearest stn: Kinshicho. Tel:
03-3623-7273.
Hitachi

Sun Rockers
Tokyo vs. Tsukuba Robots.
Jan 25-26, 6pm, ¥1,0002,000. Yoyogi National
Gymnasium. Nearest stn:
Meiji-Jingumae.
Hitachi

Sun Rockers
Tokyo vs. Aisin Seahorses
Mikawa. Feb 15-16, 6pm,
¥1,000-2,500. Ota City
General Gymnasium.
Nearest stn: Umeyashiki. Tel:
03-5480-6688.
More game and ticket info
at www.nbl.or.jp
FIGURE SKATING
All Japan Championship
Dec 21-Dec 23, various times,
¥2,000-12,000. Saitama
Super Arena. Nearest stn:
Saitama-Shintoshin.
All Japan Medalist on ice
Dec 24, 5:30pm, ¥5,0009,000. Saitama Super Arena.
Nearest stn: SaitamaShintoshin.
ICE HOCKEY
Asia League
H.C.

Tochigi Nikko
Icebucks vs. Tohoku Free
Blades. Dec 7-8, 4pm, ¥1,0003,600. Nikko Shimofuri Ice
Arena. Tel: 0288-53-5881.
H.C.

Tochigi Nikko
Icebucks vs. Oji Eagles. Jan
18-21, 4pm, ¥1,000-3,600.
Nikko Shimofuri Ice Arena.
Tel: 0288-53-5881.
H.C.

Tochigi Nikko
Icebucks vs. High 1. Feb 8-9,
4pm, ¥1,000-3,600. Nikko
Shimofuri Ice Arena. Tel:
0288-53-5881.
More game and ticket info
at www.alhockey.com
PRO WRESTLING
New Japan: World Tag
League
Nov 23, 6:30pm, ¥4,0008,000. Korakuen Hall.
Nearest stn: Suidobashi. Tel:
03-5800-9999.
Big Japan
Nov 22, 7pm, ¥3,150-6,300.
Korakuen Hall. Nearest stn:
Suidobashi. Tel: 03-58009999.
RUGBY
Top League
NTT Communications
Shining Arcs vs. Ricoh
Black Rams. Dec 7,
12pm, ¥300-3,500.
Chichibunomiya Rugby
Stadium. Nearest stn:
Gaienmae. Tel: 03-34013881.
SOCCER
J. League, Division 1
FC Tokyo vs. Shonan
Bellmare. Nov 23, 5pm,
¥500-5,000. Ajinomoto
Tobitakyu. Tel: 04-24400555.
Kashima Antlers vs.
Sagan Tosu. Nov 23, 2pm,
¥1,400-7,500. Kashima
Soccer Stadium. Nearest stn:
Kashima Sports Stadium.
Urawa Reds vs. Kawasaki
Frontale. Nov 23, 2pm,
¥1,000-4,500. Saitama
Urawamisono. Tel: 048-8121001.
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Kashiwa Reysol vs. FC
Tokyo. Nov 30, 5pm, ¥1,3005,000. Hitachi Stadium.
Nearest stn: Kashiwa. Tel:
047-162-2250.
Omiya Ardija vs. Jubilo
Iwata. Nov 30, 2pm, ¥1,0005,000. NACK5 Stadium.
Nearest stn: Kitaomiya. Tel:
048-644-7950.
Yokohama F. Marinos vs.
Albirex Niigata. Nov 30, 2pm,
¥900-5,000. Nissan Stadium.
Nearest stn: Kozuke. Tel:
04-5477-5000.
FC Tokyo vs. Vegalta Sendai.
Dec 7, 3:30pm, ¥500-6,000.
Ajinomoto Stadium. Nearest
stn: Tobitakyu. Tel: 04-24400555.
Kashima Antlers vs.
Sanfrecce Hiroshima. Dec
7, 3:30pm, ¥1,400-7,500.
Kashima Soccer Stadium.
Nearest stn: Kashima Sports
Stadium.
Kawasaki Frontale vs.
Yokohama F. Marinos. Dec 7,
3:30pm, ¥800-4,500. Todoroki
Musashikosugi. Tel: 044-7220303.
Shonan Bellmare vs.
Omiya Ardija. Dec 7, 3:30pm,
¥600-5,500. Shonan BMW
Stadium Hiratsuka. Tel:
0463-33-4455.
Urawa Reds vs. Cerezo
Osaka. Dec 7, 3:30pm, ¥1,0003,000. Saitama Stadium.
Nearest stn: Urawamisono.
Tel: 048-812-1001.
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www.j-league.jp/eng
VOLLEYBALL
Men's World Grand
Champions Cup
Nov 22-Nov 24, various
times, ¥500-8,500. Tokyo
Metropolitan Gymnasium.
Nearest stn: Sendagaya. Tel:
03-5474-2112. www.jva.or.jp/
world/wgcc2013
Emperor’s Cup/Empress’s
Cup
Dec 11-15, various times,
¥800-5,500. Tokyo
Metropolitan Gymnasium,
Shibuya. Nearest stn:
Sendagaya. Tel: 03-5474-2112.
Festivals
Water Ravine Festival
Hiking by the Yorou river,
rice cake making contest and
more. Nov 23, 10am, free.
Otakimachi, Chiba. Nearest
stn: Yourou Keikoku. Tel:
0470-80-1146. http:// meturl.
com/chibamomiji2013
Harvest Festival
Try out harvesting daikon, negi
etc, botanical art lessons and
more. Nov 23-24, 9am-4pm,
from ¥100. Adachi Nougyou
Park. 2-44-1 Shikahama,
Adachi-ku.
Nearest stn: Akabane. Tel:
03-3853-4114. www.seibu-la.
co.jp/adachi-agri
Narita San Park Koyo
Festival
Shakuhachi and koto
performances. ; Nov 23-24 &
Nov 30, all day, free. Narita San
Park. Narita city, Chiba. Nearest
stn: Narita. Tel: 0476-22-2102.
www.chiba-tour.jp
Bunkyo Kiku Matsuri
Dolls made from
chrysanthemum flowers,
dome-shaped displays
and more. Until Nov 23,
6am-sunset, ¥500. Yushima
Tenjin. Nearest stn: Yushima
or Ueno Okachimachi.
Tel: 03-3836-0753. www.
yushimatenjin.or.jp
Tokyo Metropolitan
Tourism Chrysanthemum
Exhibition
Masterpieces of horticultural
manipulation, including
bonsai and other styles. Until
Nov 23, 10am-4pm, free. Hibiya
Park. Nearest stn: Hibiya. Tel:
03-3930-2828.
Asakusa Tori-no-Ichi
Annual open-air market selling
goods thought to bring good
fortune. Nov 27, all day, free.
Chokokuji, Asakusa. Nearest
stn: Iriya or Asakusa. www.
torinoichi.jp
Mount Takao Momiji
Matsuri
Hiking event to view colored
leaves. Kokeshi show every
weekend. Until Nov 30, all day,
free. Takaomachi, Hachioji.
Nearest stn: Takaosanguchi.
Tel: 042-643-3115. http://
meturl.com/takao2013
Meiji Jingu Gaien Gingko
Festival
Street perfromances, tea
ceremony demonstrations,
ikebana exhibition and more.
Until Dec 9, 10am-4:30pm, free.
Meiji Jingu Gaien. Nearest stn:
Harajuku. Tel: 03-3401-0312.
www.meijijingugaien.jp/event
Forums & Expos
Winter Sports Festa
Features over 290 of the
coolest brands this season. Nov
22, 2-7pm; Nov 23, 11am-7pm;
Nov 24, 11am-6pm, free.
Makuhari Messe. Nearest
stn: Kaihin-Makuhari. www.
fuyusupo.jp
Gunpla Expo World Tour
Gundam model enthusiast
heaven. ; Nov 22, 10am-8pm;
Nov 23, 10am-6pm; Nov 24,
10am-5pm, free. Akihabara
UDX. Nearest stn: Akihabara.
Tel: 03-5289-0989. http://
bandai-hobby.net/expo2013
Tokyo Motor Show
The future of automobiles.
Conferences, test rides and
more. Nov 23-Dec 1, 10am-8pm
(Mon-Sat)/ 10am-6pm (Sun),
¥400-1,300 (adv)/ ¥500-1,500
(door). Tokyo Big Sight. Nearest
stn: Kokusai-Tenjijo-Seimon.
www.tokyo-motorshow.
com/en
Odaiba Motor Fes
Italian, Japanese and
American car showcase. Until
Dec 1, various times, various
prices. Mega Web Tokyo City
Showcase. Nearest stn: Tokyo
Teleport. Tel: 03-3599-0808.
www.megaweb.gr.jp
Sportec
A focus on health and
fitness. Dec 5-6, 10am-6pm;
Dec 7, 10am-5pm, free
(pre-registration)/ ¥2,000
(door). Tokyo Big Sight. Nearest
stn: Kokusai-Tenjijo-Seimon.
www.sports-st.com/en
Eco-Products 2013
Activities, products and
proposals for a sustainable
world. Dec 12-13, 11am-6pm;
Dec 14, 11am-5pm, free
(registration required). Tokyo
Big Sight. Nearest stn: KokusaiTenjijo-Seimon. eco-pro.com/
eco2013/english
Bazaars & Markets
Family Bazaar
Clothes, accessories, food and
more. Nov 22-24; Nov 29-Dec 1,
10am-5pm, free. Iwamotocho
and Higashi-Kanda areas.
Nearest stn: Iwamotocho.
www.family-bazar.com
Shinagawa Intercity Flea
Market
More than 120 vendors. Sun
& hols. Until Jan 1, 9am-3pm,
free. Shinagawa Intercity.
Nearest stn: Shinagawa.
meturl.com/shinflea
Iidabashi Ramla Market
Every first and third Sun,
10am-4pm, Iidabashi Ramla.
Nearest stn: Iidabashi.
Umi no Koen Flea Market
Every 3rd Sun, 10am-4pm,
Umi no Koen. Nearest stn:
Uminokoen-Shibaguchi.
[email protected]
Tel: 03-3226-6800.
Best Flea Market
Every second Sun, 10am-4pm,
Tokyo International Forum
Hall C. Nearest stn: Yurakucho.
Tel: 03-3226-6800.
Hanazono Shrine Market
Every Sun, 8am-4pm,
Hanazono Shrine. Nearest
stn: Shinjuku-sanchome. Tel:
03-3200-3093.
Ibaraki-ichi
Farm-fresh veg from the north.
Every Sat, 7-9am, Roppongi
Hills East Court. Nearest stn:
Roppongi. Tel: 03-6406-5285.
Soramachi Christmas
Market
Hot win, European nibbles
and crafts. Nov 5-Dec 25,
daily 11am-10pm, free. Tokyo
Soramachi. Nearest stn:
Asakusa or Oshiage. www.
skytreetownillumination2013.
jp
Community
Nogi Shrine Market
Every second Sun, 5:30am3pm, Nogi Shrine. Nearest stn:
Nogizaka. Tel: 03-3478-3001.
Oedo Antique Fair
Japan’s largest outdoor antique
market. Every first and third
Sun, 8am-4:30pm, Tokyo
International Forum Hall C.
Nearest stn: Yurakucho. Tel:
03-5805-1093.
Aoyama Marché
Organic farmers’ market.
Every weekend, United
Nations University. Nearest
stn: Omotesando. Tel: 03-34560960.
Yasukuni Shrine Antique
Market
Every Sun, sunrise-sunset,
Yasukuni Shrine. Nearest stn:
Kudanshita. Tel: 03-3261-8326.
Fudaten Jinja Market
Every second Sun, 10am-4pm,
Fudaten Jinja. Nearest stn:
Chofu. Tel: 04-2489-0022.
Shinjuku Central Park
Market
Local produce stalls,
workshops and live
performances. Every Saturday,
10am-4pm, Shinjuku Central
Park. Nearest stn: Tocho-mae.
Tel: 03-2504-2128. meturl.
com/shinjukuparkmarket
Yebisu Marché
Organic fruits and vegetables.
Every first and third Sun,
11am-5pm, Ebisu Garden
Place. Nearest stn: Ebisu. www.
facebook.com/YEBISUMarche
Christmas Markets
Christmas Flea City
Nov 22-Dec 22, every Sun
11am-5pm, free. Ark Karajan
Place, Ark Hills. Nearest stn:
Roppongi Icchome. www.
arkhills.com
Tree of Hope
DEC 1 (SUN), 10:30AM-5PM
Vedaplus
Winter Event
A one-day event to recharge
yourself. Practice yoga,
learn more about yourself
through a plam reading
and relax with a refreshing
massage. Email: info@
vedaplus-motoazabu.jp.
Tel: 03-6434-5448 Nearest
stn: Azabu-Juban. http://
vedaplus-motoazabu.jp/
Roppongi Tenmon Club
See the stars and the city
lights with other astronomy
enthusiasts.Nov 22 & Dec 27,
7-9pm; ¥500-1,500 (entrance
fee) + ¥2,000 (seminar,
optional). Tokyo City View. Tel:
03-6406-6652. http://meturl.
com/tenmon
Tokyo Spring
Film screening and
discussion of Gwangju
Rebellion and History of
Modern Korea. Korean
with Japanese subtitles.
Nov 24, 3pm, free +1d.
Cafe Lavanderia. Nearest
stn: Shinjuku Sanchome.
sulejmansulejman@yahoo.
com. http://tokyospring.
blogspot.jp
The Cat's Meow
Modern speakeasy presents
a book reading and signing
with Japantown author Barry
Lancet. Hardcover book,
welcome drink and snacks
included. Dec 6, 8-10pm,
¥4,000. Biscotti Tapas. Nearest
stn: Yoyogi Uehara. http://
kimiecat.wordpress.com
Sale of exquisite Christmas
ornaments where a percentage
of the proceeds go to charity.
Nov 22-Dec 25, all day, ¥2,500
per ornament. The Peninsula
Hotel Lobby. Nearest stn:
Hibiya. www.peninsula.com/
Tokyo
Sunday Spin
Roppongi Hills Christmas
Market
Pause Talk
German-style market with
handmade crafts and imported
goods. Nov 30-Dec 25, daily
11am-9pm, free. Roppongi
Hills. Nearest stn: Roppongi.
Tel: 03-6406-6000. www.
roppongihills.com/events
Christmas Market
Hula-hoop it up in Yoyogi, no
need to bring your own. Drop
in/out at any time. Every fourth
Sun, Yoyogi Park. Nearest
stn: Harajuku. Tel: 03-34696081. http://meturl.com/
hoopinginjapan
Open forum where creatives
can get together and discuss
projects, ideas and cultural
currents. Every first Mon, Cafe
Pause. Nearest stn: Ikebukuro.
Tel: 03-6912-7711. www.
pausetalk.org
Party and Purpose
German-style huts line the
plaza selling hot wine, stollen
and traditional crafts. Nov
30-Dec 25, daily 11am-10pm,
free. Yokohama Red Brick
Warehouse. Nearest stn:
Minatomirai. Tel: 045-2272002. www.yokohamaakarenga.jp
A casual get-together over
dinner with people interested
in personal development,
organized by Tokyo Positive
Thinkers. Every third Wed,
8pm, about ¥2,000, Ikebukuro
TGI Friday's. Nearest stn:
Ikebukuro. Tel: 090-44406391. http:// meturl.com/
positivethinkerstokyo
Christmas Organic Market
Stitch-n-Bitch
A holiday twist to the regular
earth-friendly market. Dec 14,
11am-6pm, free. Park Hyatt
Tokyo. Nearest stn: Hatsudai.
[email protected] www.facebook.
com/organicmarket.tokyo
Marché de Noël
Toys, treats, seasonal
cards and more. Until Dec
25, daily 11am-9pm, free.
Tokyo Midtown. Nearest
stn: Roppongi. Tel: 03-34753100. http://meturl.com/
midtownmarche2013
Meet fellow knitters,
crocheters and sewers to
talk, share ideas, eat, drink
and create. Every first
and third Tue, 7pm, free,
Cafe Respekt. Nearest stn:
Shibuya. www.meetup.com/
TokyoStitchandBitch
Half-Fast Cyclists
Bicyclists of all treads meet
for slide shows, lectures,
ride-planning, etc. Every
second Wed, 7pm, free,
The Pink Cow. Nearest stn:
Roppongi. Tel: 03-6434-5773.
[email protected]
Tokyo Street Hockey
Association
Casual street hockey group
with regular meet-ups. Every
first, second and third Fri,
various venues. Check website
calendar for details. www.
tokyohockey.com
Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art
School
Burlesque models pose for
artstars and sketching newbies
alike with food, drinks and
arty socializing. Every third
Wed, 7pm, ¥2,000, The Pink
Cow. Nearest stn: Roppongi.
Tel: 03-6434-5773. cowmail@
thepinkcow.com www.
drsketchytokyo.wordpress.
com
Learning
ICT Workshop: Handmade
Christmas Ornaments
and Yarn Spinning
Learn how to use a spindle and
to make Christmas ornaments
from your newly spun yarn.
Nov 22, 7:30-10pm, ¥1,500.
Allincco Office, 2-22-14,
Shibuya. Nearest stn: Shibuya.
[email protected].
www.intlcentertokyo.com/
workshop/ictworkshop3
Make Your Own Sockshaped Tote Bag
Workshop for kids (below
elementary school age) to
make an original sock-like
bag. Nov 23, 5pm, ¥1,000. Kids
no Mori, Omotesando Hills.
Nearest stn: Omotesando
or Meijijingumae. www.
omotesandohills.com/event/
Bordeaux Wine Seminar
A gourmet dinner with
exceptional wines in an
international atmosphere. Nov
30, 7pm, ¥9,980 (adv). Legato.
Nearest stn: Shibuya. http://
meturl.com/monthlywine
ICT Workshop:
"Deco-ben"
Learn how to make a
decorative bento in a friendly
and international atmosphere.
Nov 30, 9:30-11:30am, ¥1,500.
Tomato Kitchen Space, 4F
Ushigome Tansu Chiiki Center,
15 Tansu-cho. Nearest stn:
Ushigome-Kagurazaka.
[email protected].
www.intlcentertokyo.com/
workshop/dekoben
Christmas Deco Brooch
Workshop
Design your own felt brooch,
just in time for Christmas! For
kids of all ages. Dec 7, 4pm,
¥1,000. Omotesando Hills.
or Meiji-jingumae. Tel:
omotesandohills.com/event
Fish Ornament Workshop
Make your own fish-shaped
ornament for this year's
Christmas tree. Until Dec
25, daily from 10am, free
(materials)/ ¥600-2,000
(entrance fee). Sumida
Aquarium. Nearest stn: Oshiage.
www.sumida-aquarium.com
TCS Improv Workshop
The weekly Tokyo Comedy
Store In the Moment improv
workshop, all levels welcome.
Beginner intensives on
weekends throughout the year.
See website for more details.
Every Wednesday, 7-9pm,
Our Space Studio. Nearest stn:
Hatagaya. Tel: 03-5770-7401.
www.tokyocomedy.com/
improv_comedy_workshop
Other Events
Santa Claus Visit
Santa drops by from Finland
to say hello to all the good
boys and girls at the Midtown
Courtyard. Nov 23-24, 1 & 4pm,
free. Tokyo Midtown. Nearest
stn: Roppongi. Tel: 03-34753100. http://meturl.com/
midtownsanta2013
Agenda Listings
Tama River Basin Folk
Performance Festival
Local folk arts by the
Group of Tama River Folk
Entertainment. Dec 1, 1pm,
free. Komae Ecorma Hall. 1-2-1
Motoizumi, Komae. Nearest
stn: Komae. http:// meturl.com/
tamariver2013
DEC 10 (TUE), 11:30-3:30PM
Ikebana
International Fair
Ikebana International Fair
2013 at Tokyo Prince Hotel.
Ikebana (flower arranging)
exhibition by iemoto
(masters), bazaar and more.
¥2,000 (inc. refreshment).
Mention Metropolis and get
free entrance.
Email: info@ikebanatokyo.
or.jp. Tel: 03-3295-0720
Nearest stn: Onarimon.
www.ikebanatokyo.or.jp/
Christmas Tree and City
Skyline Night Cruise
Catch the breathtaking city
view at dusk from the waters
of Tokyo Bay. Nov 23, Dec 14
& Dec 21-25, 5pm, ¥500-1,000.
Chiba Port Tower. Nearest
stn: Chiba Minato. www.
chiba-porttower.com
Tape Tokyo
Austrian-Croation art
collective is seeking volunteers
to help set up tape installation.
Until Nov 24, free. Spiral.
03-3498-1171. www.spiral.
co.jp/about/recruit
Writers' Bloc Tokyo 22:
November Noise
Enjoy spoken word artistry
and share your own
creative efforts in a relaxed
environment. Nov 24, 7:30pm,
free. Jamrock Cafe. Nearest
stn: Harajuku. www.facebook.
com/writersbloctokyo
Super Oktoberfest
Beer, beer and more beer. Nov
28-Dec 1, 11am-10pm, ¥1,200
Dome. Nearest stn: Suidobashi.
[email protected].
www.super-oktoberfest.jp
Tokyo Run for the Cure/
Walk for Life
10K/5K run and 5K walk in
order to raise awareness about
breast cancer in Japan. Nov 30,
from 9am, registration fee: free
(under 5s)/ ¥2,500 (6-12 yrs)/
¥5,000 (gen). Hibiya Park and
around the Imperial Palace.
[email protected] www.
runforthecure.org/en/runwalk
Tokyo Media
International
Networking event with short
film screenings, art exhibits
and a Q&A with Hollywood
producer Bruce Nachbar. Dec
2, 7pm, ¥2,500 (adv). Grand
Hyatt Tokyo. Nearest stn:
Roppongi. www.tokyomedia.jp
Feed an Elephant:
Christmas Version
Give an early birthday present
to one of the zoo's most popular
residents. Dec 21-23, 2pm,
¥200-500. Kanazawa Zoo.
Nearest stn: Kanazawabunko.
Tel: 045-783-9100. www2.
kanazawa-zoo.org
Thank You Candle
Write a message of gratitude
on a candle, then line up with
others to create a giant heart.
Dec 24, sunset-8pm, ¥1,000
per candle. Yokohama Red
Brick Warehouse. Nearest stn:
Minatomirai. Tel: 045-2111515. www.welcome.city.
yokohama.jp
Yokohama Christmas:
Singing Tree
Until Dec 25, from 5:30pm, free.
Queen's Square. Nearest stn:
Minato Mirai. www.qsy-tqc.jp
Whisky Hills 2013
Discounted or free whisky
samples abound at
participating restaurants.
Until Dec 25. Roppongi Hills.
whiskyhills.jp
Department-H
Underground party hosted
by drag queens. Every first
Saturday night of every
month. BYOB. Until Dec
5, 12am, ¥3,000(dress
code)/¥4,500 (w/flyer)/ ¥5,000
(door). Tokyo Kinema Club.
Nearest stn: Uguisudani. Tel:
03-3874-7988. department-h.
com
Shibuhouse Party
All-night house party with
the Shibuhouse residents
on the 22nd of every
month, 7pm-7am. ¥1,000
w/ food & drink. Contact
shibuhouseinfo@gmail.
com for address/directions.
shibuhouse.com.
Film
City View. www.roppongihills.
com/events
stn: Minato Mirai. www.
mec-markis.jp/mm
Silent Film Renaissance
2013
Roppongi Hills
Illumination
Bright Christmas
A selection of Lois Weber films
are accompanied by live piano
music. Nov 26-Dec 1, various
times, ¥100-500. National Film
Center. Nearest stn: Takebashi.
www.momat.go.jp/english/nfc
ASVOFF 2013
International film festival
focused on fashion, curated
by Diane Pernet. Nov 29,
4-11pm; Nov 30, 1-11pm; Dec
1, 11am-7pm, ¥1,000-1,500 (1
day)/ ¥2,500-3,000 (3 days).
Idol Tokyo, Minato-ku. Nearest
stb: Omotesando. Tel: 03-64274741. http:// asvoff.jp
Poland Film Festival
A selection of works by Polish
filmmakers ranging from
the 1950s to as recent as
2011. Nov 30-Dec 13, various
times, ¥1,200 (adv)/ ¥1,500
(door)/ ¥8,000 (free pass to
all screenings). Image Forum.
polandfilmfes.com
Swedish Film Festival
Classic and new films by
Swedish directors. Nov 30-Dec
6, various times, ¥500-1,500.
Eurospace. Nearest stn:
Shibuya. meturl.com/
swefilm2013
Holiday Lights
Christmas Illumination
and Show
Nov 23-Dec 25, daily from 5pm,
free. Chiba Port Tower. Nearest
stn: Chiba Minato. www.
chiba-porttower.com
Caretta Illumination —
White Xmas in the Sea
Until Dec 25, daily from 5pm,
free. Caretta Shiodome.
Nearest stn: Shiodome. Tel:
03-6218-2100. www.caretta.jp/
illumi2013
Hikari no Saiten
Nov 30-Dec 25, from 4:30pm,
free. Motofuchie Park,
Adachi-ku. Nearest stn:
Takenotsu. http:// meturl.com/
adachihikari20
Tokyo Gate Bridge
Illumination
Dec 24, from sunset, free.
Iwakasu Park. Nearest stn:
Iwakasu Koen Kanpujo. http://
meturl.com/iwakasupark
Sky Illumination
Until Dec 25, Mon-Thu & Sun
from 10am, ¥500-1,500. Tokyo
KANAMACHI
Single Male, Female Separate Floors
JPY55,000 /month
Share Male, Female Separate Floors
JPY35,000 /month
free. Roppongi Hills. Nearest
stn: Roppongi. Tel: 03-64066000. www.roppongihills.
com/events
Starlight Garden
free. Tokyo Midtown. Nearest
stn: Roppongi. Tel: 03-34753100. www.tokyo-midtown.
com/jp/xmas/2013/
illumination
Aqua Marine Magic
Until Dec 25, daily 11am-11pm,
free. Aqua City. Nearest stn:
Odaiba Kaihin Koen. www.
aquacity.jp
Tokyo Tower Christmas
Illumination
free. Tokyo Tower. Nearest
stn: Akabanebashi. www.
tokyotower.co.jp
Illumination Museum
Until Dec 25, time depends
on location, free. Office
buildings and hotels around
West Shinjuku. Nearest stn:
Shinjuku or Nishi-Shinjuku.
www.machigurumi.net
Christmas Shining Lights
Until Dec 25, daily
11am-11pm, free.
Omotesando Hills. Nearest
stn: Omotesando or
Meiji-jingumae. Tel: 03-34970310. www.omotesandohills.
com/event
Lalaport Yokohama
Christmas Illumination
Until Dec 25, daily from
4:30pm, free. Lalaport
Yokohama. Nearest stn:
Kamoi. http:// okohama.
lalaport.jp/campaign/
illumination
Yokohama Bay Christmas
Illumination
4:30pm, free. Yokohama
Bay Quarter. Nearest stn:
Yokohama. www.yokohamabayquarter.com
Xmas Illumination
4:45pm, free. Lalaport Tokyo
Bay. Nearest stn: Minami
Funabashi. http:// tokyobay.
lalaport.net
Mark IS Minato Mirai
Christmas
Until Dec 25, all day, free.
3-5-1 Minato Mirai. Nearest
Marunouchi
Illuminations
free. Yokohama Landmark
Tower. Nearest stn: Minato
Mirai. www.marunouchi.com/
feature_jp/13xmas
Xmas Wonderland
free. Shibuya Hikarie. Nearest
stn: Shibuya. www.hikarie.jp/
special/2013/xmas
Winter Illuminations
5:45pm, free. Tokyo Diver City
Plaza. Nearest stn: Daiba. www.
divercity-tokyo.com
Romantic Starry Night
Until Jan 5, daily from
3:30pm, free. The Museum of
the Little Prince in Hakone.
Nearest stn: Hakone Yumoto.
Tel: 0460-86-3700. www.tbs.
co.jp/l-prince/e
Tama Center Illumination
Until Jan 7, daily from 4:30pm,
free. Tama Center. Nearest
stn: Tama Center. www.
tamacenter-cm.com/illumi
Shinbashi Christmas
Illumination
Until Jan 10, daily from 5pm,
free. SL Hiroba. Nearest stn:
Shinbashi. http:// meturl.com/
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Baccarat Eternal Lights
free. Ebisu Garden Place.
Nearest stn: Ebisu. www.
gardenplace.jp
Tiara of Light
Until Jan 13, from 4pm, free.
Ginza and Kasumigaseki
area. Nearest stn: Ginza.
http:// mi-mo.jp/pc/special/
xmas2013_illumination
Utsunomiya Illumination
Until Feb 16, daily from
5pm, free. Marunouchi area.
Nearest stn: Tokyo. www.
marunouchi.com
Jewellumination
Until Feb 16, daily from 4pm,
¥500-1,200. Yomiuriland.
Nearest stn: Yomiurilandmae.
www.yomiuriland.com/
jewellumination
Night Venus - Light for
Wishing
Until Mar 16, daily from noon,
free. VenusFort. Nearest stn:
Aoumi. Tel: 03-3599-0700.
www.venusfort.co.jp/illumi
Winter Fantasy
Until Apr 9, daily from sunset,
free. Cosmo Clock 21, Cosmo
World. Nearest stn: Minato
Mirai. www.senyo.co.jp/cosmo
Lake Sagami Illumillion
Until Apr 13, daily from 5pm,
¥300-500. Sagamiko Resort
Pleasure Forest. Nearest stn:
Sagamiko. www.sagamikoresort.jp/illumillion
Tokyo Michi Terrace Starlight Walk
5pm, free. Marunouchi area.
Nearest stn: Tokyo.
Towers Milight: All Office
Buildings Light Up
Dec 24, from 2pm, free. Minato
Mirai area. Nearest stn: Minato
Mirai. www.minatomirai21.
com
Oto to Hikari no
Omotenashi
Until Mar 2, daily from 5pm,
free. Akasaka Sacas. Nearest
stn: Akasaka. http://sacas.net
Omotesando
Illuminations: Let's Give
Happiness
free. various venues. Nearest
stn: Utsunomiya. http://
meturl.com/utsu2013
Nov 28-Jan 5, from sunset,
free. Omotesando area.
and Meiji Jingumae. www.
omotesandohills.com
Tokyo Skytree Town
Illumination
Christmas Decorations
and Model Christmas
Train
Until Jan 31, daily
from 5pm, free. Tokyo
Soramachi. Nearest stn:
Asakusa or Oshiage. www.
skytreetownillumination
2013.jp
Blue Lights Symphony
Until Feb 14, daily from 5pm,
free. Keyaki Hiroba, Saitama
Shintoshin. Nearest stn: Sa
itama Shintooshin. www.
saitama-arena.co.jp
UntilJan 13, all day, free. Hilton
Tokyo Bay Lobby. Nearest stn:
Maihama. Tel: 047-355-5000.
www.hiltontokyobay.jp
Tokyo Dome City Winter
Illumination
Until Feb 16, from 5pm, free.
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Korakuen or Suidobashi.
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Agenda Movies BY DON MORTON
THE PERKS OF BEING
A WALLFLOWER
W
e all went to high school. Some us were
in with the “cool” kids, but most of you
perhaps not. Kidding. Anyway, we’ve
all seen way too many too-sappy
coming-of-age movies about fitting in, being yourself
and following your dream, ad nauseam. But somehow
this one, scripted and directed by Stephen Chbosky
from his own popular YA novel, manages to (see title)
take a fresh look at some of the positive aspects of
being on the outside looking in. The time is the early
’90s. The central character is Charlie (a career-making
turn for Logan Lerman, making up for all that Percy
Jackson drivel), a troubled, alienated freshman who is
befriended by senior-class stepsiblings and perfectly
happy outcasts Ezra Miller (We Need to Talk About
Kevin) and Emma Watson (effectively erasing Hermione). Their older and artsier crowd kind of adopts
Charlie and helps him face down some dark, guiltdriven demons. This nuanced, unsentimental ode
to the power of supportive friends is warm and wise,
sad and amusing, sincere and insightful, and not at all
unhip. Japanese title: Wallflower. (102 min)
NEW
CAN’T STAND LOSING
YOU: SURVIVING THE
POLICE
This candid and entertaining
look at the rock group’s sevenyear history, interspersed with
foota ge f rom their 2007-08
reunion tour, is adapted from
Andy Summers’s popular autobiography One Train Later.
What makes it so much more personal than most rock docs is
the inclusion of the guitarist’s own, most excellent still photography. Man has a second talent. Few talking heads, not even
Sting or Stuart Copeland. Of note to us here in Tokyoland is a
scene in which Summers is strolling past a tiny karaoke bar in
Shinjuku’s Golden Gai district that’s belting out “Every Breath
You Take.” He goes in... (82 min) SHOWING FROM NOV 23
FILTH
I read this accurately titled 1998
Irving Welsh novel because
the movie Trainspotting was so
good. Then I took a hot shower
and threw the book away rather
than pass it on. So I’m perhaps
not completely impartial on this
flick, even though it curbs some of the novel’s excesses (fewer
tapeworm monologues and diseased genitals). That said, this
breath of rancid air might be tolerated for the image-shattering,
balls-to-the-wall performance by James McAvoy as Sgt. Bruce
Robinson, an amoral cokehead cop (“filth” in the vernacular) so
demented he’d make Harvey Keitel’s bad lieutenant puke. And
the great cast. (97 min)
YOU’RE NEXT
While not really a horror fan, I do
appreciate the occasional frightener that provides its thrills
through cleverness, character
a n d c re at iv it y rat h e r t h a n
gratuitous gore. This deliciously
t w i s te d , d a rk ly h u m o r o u s
creeper adeptly crosses the old home-invasion shtick with
a dysfunctional family dramedy. You’ll squirm and laugh at
the same time. A big reason for its success is Sharni Vinson in
the “Last Girl Standing” role, whose character turns out to be
less defenseless and way more resourceful than the invaders
counted on. Still not for the queasy, but there’s more here than
mere splatter. Japanese title: Surprise. (96 min)
NEW
A LIAR’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY: THE
UNTRUE STORY OF
MONTY PYTHON’S
GRAHAM CHAPMAN.
“Cool,” I said, as the lights dimmed.
“A doc about a Monty Python
guy. Gotta be funny.” But this
tunelessly tedious pseudo-biography about the group’s only
openly gay (and long-dead) member is sloppy, often incoherent,
aggressively not funny and most decidedly not a Monty Python
movie. Cobbled together by 14 different animation studios that
apparently communicated infrequently, the film lurches from
one wrong-headed, tasteless episode to another. I left the theater
spitting. Only 82 minutes but seems interminable! Unwatchable
swill. Japanese title: Monty Python Aru Usotsuki no Monogatari:
Graham Chapman Jiden. (82 min) SHOWING FROM NOV 23
THE FAMILY
Ever since mob-enforcer dad
( Rober t D e Ni ro; ta l k about
inspired casting!) turned rat, the
Manzoni family (mom Michelle
Pfeiffer, kids Dianna Argon &
John D’ Leo) has been living
in France under the Witness
Protection Program. But sharing as they do certain ingrained
attitudes toward conflict resolution, they have proven a
handful for their beleaguered FBI handler Tommy Lee Jones.
Luc Besson’s would-be crowd-pleaser is sporadically entertaining but tonally all over the place, gleefully mixing sudden,
brutal ultra violence with sitcom gags. Spoof or thriller? Not
really good enough for either. Japanese title: Malavita. (111 min)
CARRIE
Brian De Palma’s 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s first novel,
about a bullied, seriously pissedoff prom queen wreaking severe
telekinetic/pyrotechnic revenge
on her tormenters, set the bar
for horror movies. The classic
contained wit, campy humor and social commentary as well as
plentiful pig blood. This too-slick, anemic remake has neither
the wit nor the commentary. Script aside, part of the problem
is the casting. The most excellent young Chloe Grace Moretz is
just to soft and approachable to make a scary Carrie. Julianne
Moore, however, really uncorks it as Carrie’s religious-fanatic
mother. (100 min)
STAND UP GUYS
Val (Al Pacino, 72) is picked up
by Doc (Christopher Walken, 69)
after a 28-year prison stretch.
The two first break their wheelman (Alan Arkin, 78) out of his
nursing home and then set out to
satisfy Val’s immediate appetites
(Note: Viagra jokes in a movie so titled can be tricky). But Val
soon senses, correctly, that Doc must kill him within 24 hours
of his release. Ah, but that’s still 24 hours away. The plot’s weak,
the direction indifferent, but your enjoyment of this geezer
GoodFellas will hinge entirely on how much you like watching
these three cinema vets play off each other. It’s an indulgence.
Japanese title: Midnight Guys. (95 min)
THE COUNSELOR
The first original screenplay by
Cormac McCarthy; direction
by Ridley Scott; a killer cast
comprising Michael Fassbender,
Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem,
Penelope Cruz and even Brad
Pitt. How can this be such a
misfire? With the exception of Diaz’s overcooked femme fatale,
it’s not the actors. Scott’s direction is stylish but unmoving. It’s
compliant. The problems are in the script. The pseudo-existential narrative’s thin, the cartoony, unlikable characters talk way
too much, and the philosophical dialogue’s pretentious. Maybe
McCarthy is better at providing source material. Wait for the
book. Japanese title: Aku no Housoku. (117 min)
EVERYDAY
I’ve always been a big fan of
M ichael Wi nterb ot tom . H i s
movies ( Butterfly Kiss, Jude,
Welcome to Sarajevo, I Want
You, Wonderland, 24 Hour Party
People, others) represent some of
the most enjoyable and thoughtprovoking hours I’ve spent at the movies. But this one escapes me.
It’s the story of an incarcerated man (John Simm) and the visits by
his wife (a terrific Shirley Henderson) and family. The gimmick is
that it was filmed over a period of five years, and so the characters
age. That’s it. I get the minimalist, slice-of-life theme, but watching
paint dry would be an action flick by comparison. Japanese title:
Itoshiki Everyday. (90 min)
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© ALIEN PRODUZIONI / PICOMEDIA /TELECINCO CINEMA/ MOD PRODUCCIONES 2012; BEHIND THE CANDELABRA: © 2013 HOME BOX OFFICE, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED; MOVIE NEWS: KEVIN MCGUE; CINEMATIC UNDERGROUND: © ARC VISION.; © 2013 映画「四十九日のレシピ」製作委員会
THE ICEMAN
In the ’70s and ’80s, homicidal
sociopath Richard Kukinski wisely
channeled his unique talents into a
highly successful career as a mob
hit man, coldly icing more than 100
unfortunate targets. What made
him remarkable (and so filmable)
was the fact that his adoring wife (a good Winona Ryder) and
two daughters never had the slightest inkling of what he really
did for a living. That’s some major compartmentalization. What
makes this gritty and gripping true-crime biopic worth watching
is an intense Michael Shannon in the title role, exuding palpable
menace in every scene not involving his family. (106 min)
2 GUNS
T wo law- en forcement a gents
( D e n z e l Wa s h i n g to n & M a rk
Wahlberg), one DEA, the other
Navy Intelligence, are under deep
cover as drug dealers, but neither
is aware that his partner in crime is
anything but a common crook. Not
great cinema. The villains (Bill Paxton & Edward James Olmos)
are cartoonish, the plot holes numerous. Take away the two
bantering A-listers and it’s a fairly preposterous, mismatchedbuddies bag of surprises and reversals that’s as generic as its
title. But Denzel and Mark display some crackling chemistry and
offbeat humor, and elevate the material to enjoyable time-waster
level. (109 min)
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS
Tarantino meets Kaufman.
Blocked would-be screenwriter
Colin Farrell gets involved with
LA’s underworld when his loopy
friends, professional dognappers
Sam Rockwell and Christopher
Walken, swipe the adored Shih Tsu
of vicious crime boss Woody Harrelson. There’s a lot going on in
this self-aware, enjoyably demented, expectations-defying and
occasionally brutal Hollywood spoof from Martin McDonagh
(In Bruges). It’s not so much about telling a story as it is about
the frustrations of storytelling. Falls apart in the third act, but
absurdly entertaining until then. Also Tom Waits and Harry Dean
Stanton. (119 min)
TWICE BORN
Love, war, birth, death, motherhood, sensuality, horror, drama.
It’s a lot to pack in to one movie. An
Italian woman (a fabulous Penelope Cruz) returns to Sarajevo for a
photo exhibition by her deceased
former lover (Emile Hirsch). She
flashes back to a time when she was diagnosed as infertile, and
the two stayed in Sarajevo despite the approaching war to try in
vitro fertilization, and, failing that, seeking a surrogate mother.
Since she’s accompanied by her teenage son, she was clearly
successful in this, but I absolutely did not see the final, devastatingly effective twist coming. Japanese title: Aru Ai he to Suzuku
Tabi. (127 min)
BEHIND THE
CANDELABRA
Based on the memoirs of manysplendored pianist and proto-queen
Lee Liberace’s (an astounding
Michael Douglas) much-younger
lover Scott Thorsen (Matt Damon,
just as good), Steven Soderbergh’s
multi-layered film merrily delves into the creepier side of the man’s
predatory sexual practices. But Douglas’s subtle performance
stops short of portraying the man as a narcissistic control freak,
and Damon plays it naïve rather than as victim or opportunist. The
two found something akin to love before fame, drugs and money
drove them apart. The film is confident, slyly funny and filled with
emotional tension. Japanese title: Ai Suru Liberace. (118 min)
eiga
SHIJUKUNICHI NO RECIPE
Rob Schwartz
D
irector Yuki Tanada has a number of feature films under her belt, but nothing she’s
done prepares us for the sensitivity and
insight of Shijukunichi No Recipe (Mourning Recipe).
It unfolds much like any typical Japanese family
drama, but Tanada takes the style in different directions and touches us in a much more profound way.
Recently widowed Ryohei is now living alone and
preparing for the 49th day Buddhist memorial service for his deceased wife when daughter Yuriko
(Hiromi Nagasaku) returns home after giving
divorce papers to her cheating husband. Yuriko has been caring for her hubby’s ailing mother and feels guilt
at abandoning ship despite the unfaithfulness. Add into the mix Imo (Fumi Nikaido), a chirpy teenager who
tries to make everything easier for Ryohei, and Haru (Masaki Okada), and the dynamics are set to bring up
regret, grief and joy. As with all good films the realizations and touching moments flow from the script and
the character development. They seem utterly unforced and this makes Mourning Recipe a joy to consume.
(129 min.)
movie news
S
ome filmmaking duos are just too good to stay apart long.
A full 40 years after their first collaboration with the gangster film Mean Streets in 1973, Robert De Niro and Martin
Scorsese teamed up again for another mafia film, The Family
(released in the Japan as Malavita). “It is always great to work with
Marty, and I will always take the opportunity,” the 70-year-old
actor said during a visit to Tokyo for the film’s Japan premiere.
French film stalwart Luc Besson penned the script about a New
York mafioso who is sent with his wife and kids to France under
a witness relocation program and later decided to direct after De
Niro was cast. Sensing the film would contain a lot of references
to the star’s earlier films with Scorsese, Besson called to get the
OK and was thrilled when the Taxi Driver director went one step
further and signed on as executive producer in order to work
with De Niro again. Besson calls the finished product “a love
letter to Scorcese.” De Niro, one of the founders of the Tribeca
Film Festival and who headed the jury at Cannes in 2011, was pleasantly surprised by fans he meet while
attending the Tokyo International Film Festival with his wife last month. “Everyone is so well behaved,” the
Oscar-winner observed. “It is not like festivals in the West where people yell at you and jump all over you.” The
Family is now playing. Kevin Mcgue
cinematic underground
T
he edgy film fest Tokyo Filmex runs
November 23-December 1 in Yurakucho,
giving cinema fans a chance to catch Japanese indie films with English subtitles as well as
some of the best of world cinema. This year’s lineup
includes Tokyo Bitch, I Love You (pictured), which
sets an 18th-century bunraku play in modernday Japan, and the Thai film Karaoke Girl about a
girl from the countryside who gets a job in the big
city as a nightclub hostess (http://filmex.net/2013/en)… No one does soul-searching family drama like the
French, as can be seen with the film A Few Hours of Spring (2012) screening from November 30 at Ginza’s
Cine Switch (4-4-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku ; www.cineswitch.com). A truck driver finds he has nowhere to go but his
mother’s house after he is released from prison, and their tense relationship takes a turn when he learns she
has a terminal brain tumor and is contemplating assisted suicide. With music by Nick Cave…The Poland
Film Festival 2013 will run at Shibuya’s Image Forum (2-10-2 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku; www.imageforum.co.jp),
November 30-December 13, bringing together works from the country’s cinematic heyday in the 1960s and
more recent entries. KM
Unless noted, Japanese films screen without English subtitles. Non-English language films are shown with Japanese subtitles only.
Dining Out THE LATEST DISH ON FOOD & DRINK IN THE BIG CITY
PHOTO BY DANIEL KRIEGER
tastemaker
IVAN ORKIN
The Tokyo “ramentrepreneur” shares
recipes and stories in a new book
By Yukari Sakamoto
I
van Orkin, the New Yorker behind two popular ramen shops in Tokyo —Ivan Ramen (3-24-7
Minami-Karasuyama, Setagaya-ku) and Ivan
Ramen Plus (Tanbaya Bldg. 2-3-8 Kyodo, Setagayaku)—may be too young (he only turns 50 this year) to
be penning an autobiography, but with ramen booming outside of Japan, it's the perfect time to come out
with a cookbook. In Ivan Ramen: Love, Obsession, and
Recipes from Tokyo’s Most Unlikely Noodle Joint, Orkin
unselfishly shares many recipes, including his signature bowls shio (salt) ramen and four-cheese mazemen
(noodles with no broth). He talks about how working
a part-time job at a Japanese restaurant in high school
started him down a path that would lead him to Japan
and his moves back and forth between Tokyo and
New York City. He also discusses how 3/11 affected his
decision to move his family back to America, all in a
revealing conversational style.
If you’ve ever wondered why in the world he
opened his first restaurant near Rokakoen station
on the Keio line in Setagaya, Orkin divulges that his
mother-in-law and Chinese feng shui had something to
do with it. A big proponent of buying locally, he shares
how he works with the other shops in his neighborhood
and confirms as true that restaurateurs and chefs do go
to Kappabashi to buy pots and pans.
Orkin spoke with Metropolis over the phone from
New York City where he is busy opening up two new
restaurants. “It’s exciting
to give people recipes to
work with, and the ramen
recipes work. It’s what
we use in the restaurant.”
He says there was a real
lack of information on
cooking ramen available in English—or even Japanese—when he opened his restaurant. So for those with
the gumption to try making a
bowl of ramen at home—including the noodles—Orkin provides
plenty of instruction. His shio
ramen recipe is a whopping 36
pages including photos.
Orkin says he “obsessed over
the eggs.” His half-cooked eggs
recipe is timed to the second.
Even if you are not ambitious
enough to make the whole ramen
recipe from scratch, simply adding this to instant ramen at home
will be a treat (see Recipe, below).
For those who want to make their
own noodles, Orkin says that he
bought his kansui (alkaline mineral water) at Tokyu Hands. The rest of the ingredients
are all readily available.
recipe
“My food is classical Japanese with a little twist,”
he says. His original recipes include a schmaltz-fried
chicken katsu and a chashu Cubano
sandwich. If you’ve dined at Ivan
Ramen and had the slow-roasted
tomatoes over rice, you’ll not only be
happy to see the recipe in the book,
but also thrilled at how easy it is to
make.
Ramen aficionados will
appreciate his interviews with Shimazaki-san, one of Tokyo’s master ramen
chefs, and Ohsaki-san of Ramen Databank, as well as the minute details of
making noodles and the myriad components that comprise a perfect bowl.
Ivan Ramen: Love, Obsession, and
Recipes from Tokyo’s Most Unlikely
Noodle Joint (Ten Speed Press, Oct
2013, 224pp), ¥2,930 available from Amazon.jp.
www.ivanramen.com
NORIKO YAMAGUCHI © 2013
HALF-COOKED EGGS
Ivan Ramen’s “eggscellent” signature dish
F
or a long time, eggs weren’t a traditional ramen
topping; they were offered hardboiled and
unpeeled in a basket for customers to pluck
out and eat while they waited or to add to their
soup. As ramen became more refined and less junkfoody, cooks started to treat the eggs with more care.
The eggs they sell in Japan are beyond delicious, and
to me, they’re an indispensable part of a bowl of ramen.
We serve hanjuku tamago, half-cooked eggs, which have
a firm but soft white and a mostly liquid yolk.
My search for perfect eggs took me to innumerable
egg farms. After an extensive search, I found one that
tasted great, had the most brilliant orange yolks and
peeled easily. (Believe me, when you have to peel two
hundred eggs a day, that’s an important criterion.) Then
I spent almost as much time figuring out how to cook
the eggs properly as I did perfecting the noodles. But
I’ve got it now: punch a pinhole in the bottom, boil for
six minutes and ten seconds, stirring gently for the first
two minutes then ice immediately. Once they’re cool,
the eggs are peeled and soaked in a light shoyu tare (or,
preferably, reserved chashu cooking liquid). Sliced in
half and served at room temperature atop the ramen,
the eggs are a perfect supporting cast member for the
soup and noodles, adding an extra touch of color and
unctuousness to the bowl.
HALF-COOKED EGGS
Servings: 6
• 50 milliliters sake
• 50 milliliters mirin
• 200 milliliters soy sauce
• 30 grams sugar
• 40 grams garlic, chopped coarsely
• 75 grams fresh ginger, chopped coarsely
• 6 room-temperature fresh, large eggs
• 1 liter water
Simmer the sake and mirin in a saucepan over
medium-high heat for two minutes to cook off a bit of
the alcohol. Reduce the heat to low, then add the soy
sauce, sugar, garlic, and ginger and simmer and stir for
10 minutes. Let come to room temperature; you can
store the mixture in the refrigerator for up to a week.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. You want a big
pot so that when the eggs go in, the temperature won’t
drop too drastically, and the water will quickly come
back to a boil.
Poke a small hole in the bottom (larger end) of each
egg with a pushpin.
Gently slide the eggs into the boiling water. Start
your timer. Stir for the first two minutes. Prepare a
large bowl of ice water to shock the eggs.
The total cooking time for a large
egg in Tokyo is six
minutes and ten
seconds. You might
decide to adjust that
t i me de p e nd i n g on
the size of your eggs, how
many you’re cooking, or what
the chickens were thinking about
when they laid them.
Remove the eggs after six minutes and ten seconds,
and immediately place them in the ice bath. Stir until
there are no pockets of hot water.
In a large bowl, combine the shoyu tare with the
liter of water. When the eggs are cooled completely—
after about 15 minutes—peel and soak them in the
seasoning liquid for two hours in the refrigerator. The
eggs will hold in the soak for three days.
When it comes time to slice the eggs and add them
to the ramen, a taut nylon fishing line gets the job done
without losing any of the precious yolk.
Reprinted with permission from Ivan Ramen
by Ivan Orkin © 2013. Published by Ten Speed
Press, a division of Random House, Inc.
BITES
THE LATEST DISH ON FOOD & DRINK IN THE BIG CITY
Dining Out
on the half shell
home dining
T
ired of eating at home? How about eating
at someone else’s place? World Neighbors
Café (4-45-9 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku; worldneighbors.com) looks like one of the coffee and
set meal joints that are so plentiful in Tokyo. But
this one is on the first floor of a “social apartment,”
which mixes furnished private rooms and communal lounge areas. Residents get a ¥15,000 monthly
credit at the café, but anyone can drop in for all day
breakfast (¥580-¥980) or lunch sets (¥780-¥1,000).
Four dinner choices (¥680-¥980), and draft beers
(from ¥500) make it an affordable place to hang out
of an evening. The residence bills itself as “absolutely foreigner friendly,” so a visit for a bite to eat
just might just lead to a change of address.
brew
COURTESY OF SANKT GALLEN BREWERY
O
yster bars often fall into the trap of taking themselves too seriously. They charge
an arm and a leg for molluscs served with
far too much flourish in over-lit spaces that resembles jewelry stores more than restaurants. Newly
opened, Kaki-Iredoki (5F Takagi Annex, 1-19-7
Kami-Meguro, Meguro-ku; 050-5872-5596) corrects
all that with reasonable prices and a comfy setting—
there's even a kotatsu out on the balcony overlooking
the station. Oysters shipped directly from Hokkaido,
Sanriku and Hiroshima start at just ¥190 each for
grilled or ¥250 raw. The name of the restaurant is a
pun on the Japanese phrase for “peak season” and
its prices and late closing time will likely ensure it
stays busy year round. The kaki zoni (¥890), an oyster and mochi soup, and the uni (sea urchin) nabe
(¥1,280) will warm the cockles during the cold nights
of autumn and the shrimp boudin blanc (¥780) is
somewhat surprising seafood sausage. The drink
list is designed to go along with seafood, including
regional nihonshu, Chablis and sparkling wines.
F
orget all the beaujolais nouveau hy pe
this November and break open a bottle of
Sankt Gallen barley or wheat wine. The
Kanagawa-based brewery has released the drinks
in limited quantities of 6,000 bottles each on the
same day that French red comes out. So why are
alcoholic drinks made with grains labeled "wine"
and not "beer"? The folks at the brewery say they
are aged as long as a wine and at 9.8% have a similar alcohol level. The el Diablo Barley Wine is made
with two and a half times the malt and six times
the hops as beer and given a second round of fermentations in the bottle just like champagne. The
brewery recommends enjoying the drinks in a
large wine or brandy glass along with cheese, foie
gras, dried fruit or chocolate. Set of two (¥2,730).
www.sanktgallenbrewery.com
pit stop
lunchbox
I
C
yclist and cafe owner Takayuki Nakamura combined t wo passions for his
latest venture. Named after the French
word for saddle bags, Cafe Sacoche (2-39-15
Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku; www.cafe-sacoche.com)
is a mecca for Tokyo cyclists on a Shimokitazawa
back street. Riders can stop by to refuel with the
shop's signature mushroom and vegetable curry
(¥1,000) or restore depleted glycogen supplies
after exercise with a café au lait using sakura
(¥580) or pistachio mocha (¥680) ice cream. After
a long tour de Tokyo, cool down with a glass of
Cono Sur wine from Chile (¥500)—complete with
bicycle illustration on the label. Also: Tour de
France videos and free Wi-Fi. Nakamura likes to
snap a photo of customers who arrive by bike and
his photo album already has over 1,000 people
and 2,000 wheels. MAMIL (middle-aged men in
Lycra) and non-cyclist friendly.
f your kids or significant other escape from
watchful eyes to open the measly PB&J you
pack for their midday repast, you may want
to seek the assistance of Tomomi Maruo, a
home cook who has elevated the boxed lunch
to an artform w ith her charaben (character
bento). Maruo has just published an e-book in
Japanese, revealing how she transforms a few
lumps of rice and cold cuts into adorable teddy
bears, bunny rabbits and city buses. Maruo also
gives group classes at various locations and can
instruct in English. Get a group of four or more
together and you can decide which character
to create. Lessons are ¥1,500 each and include
lunch, a dessert and materials. Of course, learners are welcome to take home what they make.
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/obento4kids
© OBENTO 4 KIDS
fry-up
F
ollowing on the heels of the NYC-born
ramen burger, the latest example of the
boomera ng food phenomenon is t he
okonomiyaki burger. A stone’s throw from the
University of London, Yaki revolutionized the Japanese treat by baking it rather than preparing it
on a grill. This may seem like a minor adjustment,
but it makes the savory pancake more suitable for
takeaway on a uni student budget. This time the
Osaka food has made the return trip back to Tokyo
with a new Yaki location off Cat Street in Harajuku
(3-20-6 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku; www.yaki.co.jp/
jp). The “burgers” are made with two small cakes
enclosing fillings such as chicken teriyaki (¥400),
bacon mushroom (¥400) or yakisoba (¥350). In
keeping with its mission of providing Japanese
food for skint students, a soft drink can be added
to orders for just ¥100. Diners with deeper pockets will want to order a cocktail or imported beer
from Soran, a Japanese bartender who has worked
in London and lends the joint more of a pub than
shitamachi feel.
GORGEOUS BAR &LOUNGE
CONVENIENT STANDING CASH-BAR AREA
SELECTED ALCOHOL & FOOD FROM ¥500
Enjoy various events on Friday until the year ends!
All events start: 8pm and No entry fee.
11/22 FRI SMOOTH JAZZY LOUNGE
DJ: Novu and more
Craft Beer
LIVE & DANCE Performer
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From Christmas to countdown,
enjoy great drinks and food with us!
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Nearest stations: Tokyo or Yurakucho. Open: Lunch 11am-2:30pm, Tea 2:30-5pm,
Dinner (Mon-Fri) 5pm-4am LO 3:30am, (Weekends and hols.) 5pm-11pm LO 10pm
☎ 03-5222-1251www.miyoshi-grp.com/cardinal/pcm
Roppongi's famous
Chinese eatery
2013
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8 types of draft beer and over 80 types of bottled beer
ALL 14:00-19:00
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03-5414-5708 03-6234-9788
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B1F PCP BLDG, 1-11-1
Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku
7min from Tokyo stn. Yaesu Central Exit,
5min from Kyobashi stn (Ginza Line) Exit 5
10min from Yurakucho Stn.
Marunouchi
Central Exit
Yaesu
Central
Exit
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boridori
Open 24 hours • 180 people max for parties
Roppongi:
2F Court Annex Roppongi,
3-2-13 Nishi-Azabu, Minato-ku.
Open: 11am-11pm (L.O. food 10pm/ drink 10:30pm)
Lunch time: Weekdays 11am-2pm,
Sat, Sun & Hols 11am-4pm
TEL: 03-5220-2272 - Email: [email protected]
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1.1 HEALTH
KIMISHIMA DENTAL OFFICE,
MINAMI-AZABU, MINATO-KU,
TOKYO. English-speaking
dentist, 3min from Hiroo stn,
specializing in both cosmetic
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CHIROPRACTIC HEALING
AND BODY CARE. Our clients
are those who have not
recovered from hospital or
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We treat backache, hernias,
shoulder discomfort, etc. Our
head office was established
in 1970 in Kyoto. Our Tokyo
practitioner is a graduate of
Fordham University in New
York City. ¥9000/70min.
03-3449-1880 http://kazryu.
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2 - 1 6 - 2 - 5 0 2 Ta k a n a w a ,
Minato-ku, Tokyo
NAKAMARU
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LO C AT E D I N
YOKOHAMA ,
provides
g e n e r a l
dentistry, esthetic
dentistry, dental implants
and orthodontics by a
UCLA-trained and
certified dentist. 30min
from Shinagawa and
Shibuya. nakamar-@
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nakamaru-dental.jp/
english/ 045-681-3359
SPORTS PHYSIOTHERAPY
(physical therapy)
c a r e i n H i r o o .
Native Engli sh - speaking
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rehabilitation, back/neck
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O N LY C U T Z O N E s a l o n
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your stuff. Moving
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from ¥12 ,000. Delivery
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1.8 GENERAL SERVICES
LOVI N G BABY MA S SAG E .
Teaching mothers, fathers
and other family members
professional baby massage
and child yoga techniques from
internationallyacclaimedPeter
Walker’s “Developmental Baby
Massage” and “YogaGym”.
E /J . P r i v a t e s e s s i o n s
from ¥4000. Small groups
from ¥3000. Four-session
discount. Call Shino
at 080-3362-0429 or email
[email protected].
2 FIND A PLACE
2.1 GUESTHOUSE
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¥ 2 8 , 9 2 8 . G o l d ¥ 2 3 , 9 4 0.
Silver ¥18,953. Bronze
¥2000. Printed photos
+¥2000/photo. Prices are
fo r o n e p ri n t i s s u e , t wo
weeks online. For details,
contact commercial@
metropolis.co.jp.
1.7 BUSINESS SERVICES
LAW OFFICE IN KAWASAKI
(next to Tokyo), member
o f t h e Yo ko h a m a B a r
Association. Legal service in
English for traffic accidents,
divorce, inheritance,
bankruptcy, business cases
(contracts, establishing a
company, trademarks, etc.)
and other legal problems.
http://www.sumikawa.net/
VISA COUNSELING:
female immigration lawyer
h a n d l e s yo u r v i s a c a s e .
P e r m a n e n t r e s i d e n c y,
naturalization, eligibility
(inviting your spouse/
children/workers from your
country), extension/change
of visa status. Consultation
¥5000. OFFICE LIFE
(Miho Fujibayashi).
Te l : 0 9 0 - 8 3 3 0 - 0 6 7 0
Website: http://officelife.
jp/en/
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SPECIAL CHAUFFEUR SERVICE:
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and environs offers you door-to-door
convenience and comfort. First hour
¥5000. Additional time ¥2500/30min.
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1.4 TRAVEL
1.2 HAIR & BEAUTY
ENGLISH-SPEAKING HAIR
SALON IN YOKOHAMA. Had
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SHIBAURA DENTAL CLINIC ENGLISH-SPEAKING DENTIST.
General and cosmetic dental
clinic. Dentist is a graduate of
Harvard Dental School, with
over 20 years’ experience
with dental practices in the
USA, Japan. Blue Shield,
Japanese National Insurance
accepted. 5min walk from
J R Ta m a c h i s t n . O p e n
M o n - S at . 03 - 5 4 4 2- 8 5 2 5
www.shibaura-dental.com/
etc.) from ¥7000.
English, French and
Japanese -speaking staf f
available. Inquiries:
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available, weekly cleaning
service, free internet, aircon,
fridge. From ¥49,000/m.
No key money/guarantor/
agent fee. 090-2405-0022
[email protected]
2.2 RENT UNDER ¥200,000
SAKURA HOUSE. Leading
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SERVICED APARTMENTS in
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Daily ¥7800. Weekly ¥6850-/
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Over three months ¥4950-/
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EMERGENCY HOUSING. Non-profit
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help the emergency housing needs
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Since 1968. Donation for stay. Email
for info. housinginjapan@yahoo.
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THREE-STORY, 100SQM FURNISHED
HOUSE FOR RENT WITH ROOF
BALCO NY. M o de rn am e nitie s :
J a c uzzi , t wo wa s h l e t to i l e t s ,
large kitchen, 10min walk from
M in a m i -S e n ju stn (M etro, J R ,
Tsukuba Express), semi-furnished
(y o u c h o o s e ), b r i g h t , a m p l e
storage, shops nearby ¥130,000/m.
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2.3 RENT OVER ¥200,000
TO K YO A PA RTM E NT S .
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EXPAT HOME , 20MIN TO ASIJ,
IN GREEN KICHIJOJI. Beautiful
expat-designed home, 158sqm,
plus loft, two decks, European
and American appliances, 40min
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2.4 HOUSE SHARE
N AT I V E E N G L I S H / B I L I N G U A L
HOMESTAY LADY sought. Furnished
room, three cooked meals, heating
and lightning expenses and more
¥50,000/m. Please teach English
to my kids. Tokyo. nuiko4518@mail.
goo.ne.jp
SUNNY ROOM IN 3DK FLAT IN
ASAKUSA, six-mat, w/big balcony,
nonsmokers only ¥ 52 ,000/m .
Utilities +¥8000-. Until Jan 10.
Longer stay might be possible.
[email protected]
2.6 BUY/SELL PREMISES
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3 EDUCATION
3.2 JAPANESE TEACHERS
WE ARE QUALIFIED
TEACHERS offering lessons
in your area or online. Prices
from ¥1500/h , written in
our re sum e s , e m aile d to
you. No registration fee!
japaneseanywhere@yahoo.
co.jp http://www.sunlesson.
com 090-2709-3736
JAPANESE LESSONS for all levels
fro m exp e ri e n c e d te a c h e r i n
Tokyo near the Yamanote line.
First and second lessons free.
Let 's e njoy Ja pan e s e le s son s
and culture! Please call Setsuko
at 090-1210-9285. Email:
[email protected]
3.5 LANGUAGE EXCHANGE
Chinese and English. Hi, I'm a
Taiwanese girl seeking a Chn/E
exchange. [email protected]
Chinese, English, Spanish. I am
a beginner at Chn. I can teach you E
basics. I am a native Japanese, but
my E is business level. Also, I can
speak Sp at an intermediate level.
[email protected]
Danish, German, Japanese. Hej
and 'N Tag! JF, 30s, seeks Danes
and Germans to help her with
languages in Tokyo/Kanagawa
through fun conversations over
cups of coffee or just hanging out.
Please be nonsmokers, 30s preferred.
[email protected]
English and Japanese. Nonsmoking
JF. I was in Canada for two years,
however my English is not great and
I keep forgetting it. Prefer female
partner. [email protected]
English and Japanese. American
professional, 49, seeking to improve his
Japanese skills and help you improve
your English. Friendly, interesting, able
to communicate casual, business and
medical subjects with fun conversation.
Tokyo-Yokohama areas. Any age.
[email protected]
English and Japanese. I'm a JF,
40s, seeking a language exchange
partner. I love music and teach piano
to kids and adults. I'd like to improve
my English. Prefer Machida area. I'm
looking forward to hearing from you!
[email protected]
English and Japanese. Seeking a
good language exchange partner
in the Futako-Tamagawa, Sancha or
Tokyo area to help me learn J. I'll help
your English. Let's meet soon and also
become friends. [email protected]
070-5451-1960
English teacher seeking a language
exchange partner with some good
ideas to help me learn J. I can help
with your English. Shibuya/Shinjuku/
Sancha preferred. Please mail me your
schedule. [email protected]
male, been in Japan a while, but I still
cannot speak J well. If you can help me
out, please drop me a line. I can help
you with E. We can also be friends.
[email protected]
English and Japanese. I want to
speak and understand J, so could you
help? I can teach you E in return. I'm
near the Shibuya area. I like friendly
people. [email protected]
English and Japanese. I'm a Japanese
guy living in Tokyo. I use E at work
and want to get used to speaking it
by having daily conversation. If you
are studying J, I could help you! I like
walking around, swimming, yoga.
[email protected]
English and Japanese. Japanese seeks
friends from foreign countries between
Soka and Takenozuka for language
exchange, movies. Let's talk over coffee.
Friendship only. No sexual emails, please.
[email protected]
English and Japanese. Hi, JF, 30,
seeking J/E exchange partner in
Hiroo, Roppongi, Chiyoda/Hibiya line
area. I used to live in the UK, love art,
design. Contact me if you're interested.
[email protected]
English and Japanese. Japanese male,
41, seeks a native English speaker for E/J
exchange. I like music and am interested
in vegetarianism and meditation. Let's
help each other and have some fun.
[email protected]
English and Japanese. I would like
to improve speaking. I am Japanese
and work in Tokyo. I want to study
seriously. In return, I can teach you J.
[email protected]
French and Japanese. Native
Japanese female nonsmoker, into
art, cinema, hiking, is seeking a
native French speaker for language
exchange once/week or more at
a cafe. My French level is upperintermediate. Serious only. saya_ch@
live.jp
Fre n c h , En g l i s h , J a pa n e s e .
European man seeking a language
exchange partner to improve his
Japanese. I can teach you Fr or E.
Let's enjoy sharing our cultures and
interests. Machida area preferred.
[email protected]
German and Japanese. JF seeks
Ger/J language exchange partner.
Seit Sechs Monaten lerne ich
Deutsch aber ich spreche Englisch.
F/M ok. If interested, drop me a line.
[email protected]
German, Dutch, English, Japanese.
Hi, there! Mature JF fancies learning
Ger and Dutch. Absolute beginner
at both, so want to study casually
over coffee. M/F ok, but must be in
the Tokyo/Yokohama area. nmi.skt@
gmail.com
German, English, Japanese.
Japanese seeking German speakers.
I'd like to learn Ger for fun. I can teach
you J in exchange. I'm studying to be
a teacher. I speak E, too. supermiffy.
[email protected]
Portuguese, English, Japanese.
Canadian guy seeking Portuguese
speaker who wants help/practice with
E or J from a very experienced English
teacher. I study alone, so my reading/
grammar is ok, but I lack speaking/
listening experience. dance_to_it@
yahoo.ca
Spanish, English, Japanese. Hi,
there. I'm a Japanese female, late 20s,
seeking someone who can teach me Sp
in E. I'd be happy to help your Japanese
in return. Looking forward to hearing
from you soon. danae1907wien@
gmail.com
3.8 OTHER LANGUAGES
Chinese exchange. Well-experienced
female Chinese teacher living in central
Tokyo, loves to teach Chinese, seeks
to exchange Chinese lessons for
financial investment or tennis lessons.
[email protected]
3.9 TEACH ME!
ENGLISH TEACHER IN ICHIKAWA.
Seeking a native English speaker
for conversation lessons. Can pay
¥3000/h, plus ¥500 for your coffee
and transportation. Would like
to have lessons at Tully's, near JR
Ichikawa stn. [email protected]
English teacher sought to help me
with my English for ¥2000/h. Shibuya
area, female teacher preferred.
[email protected]
English. Need some help with my
English. Prefer Shibuya, Shinjuku or
Ikebukuro. Experienced American
te a c h e r p re fe rre d . ¥ 3 0 0 0/ h .
[email protected]
Native English teacher sought,
preferably in Ikebukuro. ¥1000/h. If
you are interested, please contact me.
[email protected]
4 HOUSEHOLD GOODS
4.1 FURNITURE & FITTINGS
Bed, queen mattress (190x155cm),
orange leather frame (210x160cm), in
great condition. Pick up only by end
of Nov. Details, photos available. rob_
[email protected]
Desk, from IDC, high-quality wood
(W60xH70cm), light color, perfect
for notebooks or desktops. Photos
available. [email protected]
Lighting. Ikea ceiling lights (Tidig,
Basisk, Fado) ¥1000/each/obo.
Standing lamp (170cm), adjustable,
three-light, chrome, w/dimmer, wood
trim. Takadanobaba. paulkun@gmail.
com
Tables, Muji, pine (80x50x35cm),
fo l d i n g , t wo ava i l a b l e . N ew
¥5000/each. Sell ¥2000/each.
¥3500/both. Takadanobaba. paulkun@
gmail.com
Vanity, built-in chair and mirror
(vanity: H72xD42xW100cm; mirror:
W86xH78cm) ¥5000. Pick up only by
end of Nov. Details, photos available.
[email protected]
4.2 APPLIANCES
Appliance sale! Powerful upright
vacuum, 750W; white circulating fan;
Ikea ceiling lights (Tidig, Basisk, Fado);
standing lamp (170cm); humidifier
¥1000/each/obo. Takadanobaba.
[email protected]
Appliance sale! Fridge ¥5500. Washer
¥4000. Pick up only Nishi-Kasai.
[email protected]
Freezer, Electrolux, large, from Costco,
still in box, w/warranty ¥40,000.
Can deliver. [email protected]
080-6553-6819
Heater, Delonghi, oil ¥13,000. Delivery
included. [email protected]
Heater, Delonghi, oil, sealed, two y/o
¥8000. Delivery in Tokyo possible.
[email protected]
4.3 SAYONARA SALE
Sayonara sale! TV, washer, air purifier,
humidifier, guitar, gas stove, kettles,
etc., in good condition ¥1000-¥4000.
Pick up Sasazuka stn. sugoigringo1@
yahoo.com http://sugoigringo1.wix.
com/sayonara-sales
Sayonara sale! Big TV ¥15,000. Small
TV ¥1000. Bed and mattress ¥5000.
Barbell ¥500. Fridge ¥2000. Chair
¥500. Vacuum ¥1000. kurt.sackel@
hotmail.com http://imageshack.
us/g/1/10353360/ 09099639518
Sayonara sale! Electric appliances,
furniture, designer clothes and purses.
Make an offer. Pick up only ShibaKoen, Minato-ku. Photos available.
[email protected] http://
instagram.com/heidi_hideshima
080-3350-4343
Sayonara sale! Sofa, seats three
¥3000. Wooden dining table and
chairs ¥3000. Washer ¥3000. Gas
clothes dryer ¥3000. Wooden bench
seat ¥3000. Hanging candle holders
¥2000. Large wall frame prints ¥2000.
[email protected]
4.4 TV & HOME THEATER
DVD/CD player, JVC, region-free,
hardly used, in good condition
¥1000. Pick up Denenchofu stn. ckm.
[email protected]
Remote, LG Magic AN-MR300,
brand new, never used ¥2000. Pick
up Denenchofu stn. ckm.wittmann@
gmail.com
PlayStation 3 60GB, black, w/two
DualShock controllers, two games
(Gran Turismo 5, Power Smash 3), in
excellent condition ¥18,000. In-person
transaction only. kizuki.buy@gmail.
com
6 VEHICLES
6.1 CARS, PARTS, &
ACCESSORIES
10 HELP!
10.1 HELP ME
Native English check needed.
JM musician needs you to check my
English lyrics. I need your help. Let’s
hang out! [email protected]
10.2 SUPPORT
4.6 FOR KIDS
Infant carrier, Lucky "Buddy Buddy"
Kaiteki Kantan, four-way, hardly used
[email protected]
Stroller fabric, Bugaboo, fleece,
tailored, w/carrycot apron, seat
cover, sun canopy. New $165. Sell
¥11,000. Breezy canopy, sand.
New $75. Sell ¥5500. ¥15,000/
both. [email protected]
08096896688
Train set, 70+ piece, w/mountain,
three bridges, turntable, Thomas,
Percy, Edward, Henry, Gordon,
James, Spencer, Hiro, Diesel 10,
Troublesome Truck, etc. ¥10,000/
obo. [email protected]
09058044378
Various items. Doll house, ski set, ski
wear, homeschooling LifePac, roller
skates. Pick up Hirano area, Koto-ku.
Photos available. [email protected]
5 HOBBIES&INTERESTS
5.1 CAMERAS
Digital camera, Fuji X100s, as new, in
original box, w/accessories, six-month
warranty ¥90,000. kodachromed@
yahoo.com
DSLR, Nikon D7000, w/new 35mm
1.8 lens, no boxes ¥75,000. Pick up
Shinjuku-San-Chome. recfreq@yahoo.
com
SLR, Minolta Dynax 7000i, w/two
AF zoom lenses (35-80mm and
70-210mm), camera handle slightly
discolored, lenses in good condition
[email protected]
5.2 SPORTS EQUIPMENT
Snowshoes, Redfeather Redtail
(20x64cm), aluminum V-tail frame,
never used ¥9000. Pick up near
Yokohama. sayonara_vancouver@
hotmail.com
Surfboard, T&C (9'6"x23"x3"), bought
at the T&C shop in Wahiwa, Hawaii, in
excellent condition, used less than one
year, w/Dakine padded bag ¥75,000.
[email protected]
5.3 MUSICAL EQUIPMENT
Acoustic guitar, Woodland, w/soft
case ¥8000. Yamaha electric piano
¥20,000. Delivery possible. Photos
Bass, Warwick Thumb BO 5, Ovangkol
neck and body, Wenge fingerboard,
active MEC J/J pickups, Warwick
Just-A-Nut II, w/Warwick gig bag, in
great condition ¥160,000. Pick up
Ikebukuro. [email protected]
Synthesizer sound module, Roland
XV-5080, as new ¥39,000. Pick up
Senzoku stn, Tokyu Meguro line.
[email protected]
5.5 GAMING
JCE AUTOS - THE
A U T O M O B I L E
PROFESSIONALS.
S p e c ia lizin g in c a r b uybacks, door-to-door
s h i p p i n g , l o n g - te rm c a r
storage and any other
car-related matters. If
you need assistance with
y o u r c a r, w e a r e h e r e
t o h e l p . Te l : 0 3 - 6 8 6 8 3 3 66 or 09 0 - 93 62- 5098
[email protected]
www.jce-autos.jp
7 GENERAL
7.1 PHONES
Smartphone , N e xu s 4 8 G B ,
Quadcore CPU, 2GB RAM, Gorilla
Glass screen, brand new, still in box,
w/accessories, SIM-free ¥30,000.
[email protected]
Smartphone, Samsung Galaxy
S3 3G 16GB, international version,
unlocked, blue, rooted, works on
any network, w/wireless QI charging
receiver, charger not included
¥25,000. [email protected]
08056842220
Smartphone, Google Nexus 4
16GB, black, new, unlocked, works
worldwide, used two weeks ¥25,000/
obo. Meet inside Yamanote line.
[email protected]
7.2 FASHION
Jeans, G-Star, new, dark gray denim,
seven pockets, size W34/L34. New
~¥20,000. Sell ¥9500. turbo32s@
yahoo.fr
Raincoat, Cecilene, size M, ivory
¥1000. Pick up or chakubarai. Photos
Shoes, women’s, size 39, heels,
wedges, Converse, in good condition.
Details available. elyse.singleton@
gmail.com
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Visit www.jhelp.com/ and press
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To volunteer or support, please
contact [email protected]. www.
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WEST PAPUA: ONE SOUL , ONE
PEOPLE . Fifty years ago, West
Papua should have been an
independent country. Since 1969,
West Papua has been invaded
and the people robbed of their
rights, culture and country. Help
support West Papuans’ desire to
be free. http://tapol.gn.apc.org/
[email protected]
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
TOKYO. If you have a problem
with drinking, we can help.
English-speaking meetings daily.
03-3971-1471 inquiries@aatokyo.
org http://aatokyo.org
11 MESSAGES
11.1 PERSONAL MESSAGES
Sunglasses, RB 4171, still in box,
never used, brown Havana frame,
brown gradient lenses, unisex. New
¥15,000. Sell ¥10,000. turbo32s@
yahoo.fr
7.3 MISCELLANEOUS
Christmas tree, 180cm, slim-type,
fully decorated, many ornaments,
lights, used four times ¥8000. Photos
available. my-mail-michael@ezweb.
ne.jp 09058044378
8 COMPUTERS
8.2 HARDWARE
Laptop, Acer Aspire 753, 11.6", black,
320GB HD, 2GB RAM, webcam, HDMI
outlet, Win 7, decent battery life (three
hours +), multi-gesture ¥16,000. zito@
inbox.com
Board games, Europeanstyle, as new or un-played:
Drakon ¥1500. Attika ¥1000.
Mr. Jack ¥1000. Babel ¥1000.
Settlers of Catan, Japanese
¥1500. Bohnanza ¥500. La
Citta ¥4000. ¥7000/all/obo.
my-mail-michael@ezweb.
ne.jp 090-5804-4378
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‘ T WA S ( R O U G H LY )
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CHRISTMAS, and all through
the land, people were
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and, Metropolis gave all a
reason to hope - post one ad
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avoid going broke. http://
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12 SOCIAL SCENE
12.1 LET’S PARTY
Monitor, ThinkVision L171p, LCD, 17", in
great condition, w/manual, DB15, DVI,
power cables ¥10,000. nrad_bob@
hotmail.com
Tablet, Sony Xperia Z 32GB, Wi-Fi,
six m/o, w/original Sony leather cover
¥40,000. [email protected]
Time Capsule, Apple, 2TB, less
than six m/o, never used, w/original
box and accessories ¥15,000.
[email protected]
I N T E R N AT I O N A L
T H A N K S G I V I N G DAY
SPECIAL PARTY. Sat, Nov 30,
6-8:30pm, Assembly Room
632-B (Omotesando). Held by
Japan’s biggest international
friendship site and English
portal site. 2 50 people.
Everybody welcome! Allyou-can-drink and snacks.
¥3000. [email protected]
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sip/ 090-1735-5405
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PARTY - AUTUMN FESTIVAL.
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Fusion (Roppongi). Japan’s
biggest international party.
250 people expected. All-youcan-drink and free snacks.
J a p a n e s e m e n : ¥ 4 0 0 0.
Othe rs : ¥3000. M obile :
http://getyourfriend.com/
mobile/ [email protected]
090-1735-5405 http://www.
getyourfriend.com/
J O I N T H E B I G G E S T,
B E S T, M O S T P O P U L A R
INTERNATIONAL PARTY!
Great people, drinks and food!
Meet new friends and party
with nice people in a friendly
atmosphere. Events in Tokyo
(Ginza, Azabu, Roppongi)
and Osaka. ¥1500-¥2000.
http://english.gaitomo.com/
[email protected]
TO ADVERTISE IN
M ETROPOLI S , Japan’s
N o.1 En gli s h m a g azine ,
log on at www.metropolis.
co.jp/classifieds or email
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13 CLUBS & INTERESTS
13.1 SPORTS
AMERICAN FOOTBALL .
Nihon Unisys Bulls, X league
C e n t ra l D i v i s i o n , s e e k s
fit players w/ US college
football experience for all
positions. Practice every
S at /S un from 10a m -3 p m
(including meeting) in
To k y o / S a i t a m a ( t i m e &
venue subject to change).
Attendance at practice must
be over 60%. Please contact
for tryout info and send
your profile to team admin.
[email protected]
http://www.unisys .co.jp/
football/
CLUB 360 PERSONAL
TRAINING, physical therapy,
fitness classes, massage.
Large, modern facility just
3min walk from Roppongi
Hills, with experienced
t ra i n e r s a n d t h e ra p i s t s .
Fo r a l l y o u r f i t n e s s a n d
rehabilitation needs, contact
us! [email protected] www.
club360.jp 03-6434-9667
training midweek? Want to enjoy a
few beers after a good run out? If you
consider yourself a quality player,
please drop us a note. bfcvagabonds@
gmail.com
13.2 LEISURE
COME LEARN AUTHENTIC
I M I KR AV MAGA wit h
qualified Israeli instructor
B o a z H a g ay. S i m p l e a n d
effective self defense and
hand-to-hand combat.
Women and men. Thu,
Sat. Dojo Roppongi.
Contact:boaz.ikm@gmail.
com 080-4141-1300 www.
imi-kravmaga.renmei.org
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ALL-NATIONALITY TOUCH
FO OTBALL . N o n - co nt a c t
tag rugby (OZ tag) and
Rugby League players.
We play every Sat from
1 0 a m i n Ta t s u m i . M / F
and beginners welcome!
Good exercise and fun!
Many other activities,
such as BBQs and drinking
parties! Email for details.
tokyorugbyleague@
hotmail.com http://ameblo.
jp/tokyo13warriors
AMATEUR RUGBY LEAGUE
PLAYERS . Japan ANZAC S
Rugby League team is
seeking Rugby League
players for Japanese
Rugby League official
games from Apr to Sep.
Everyone welcome.
Contact for more details.
[email protected]
AIKIDO IN ENGLISH . Seidokan
Aikido of Tokyo invites you to
practice a modern style of aikido
in an international environment.
Sat, 1-3pm, Itabashi-ku, Toei Mita/
Saikyo line. We welcome men and
women, foreign and Japanese.
[email protected]
http://www.tokyoseidokan.com
03-5994-1185
PLAY RUGBY. The Tokyo Crusaders
are a friendly but keen international
rugby club. Devoted to the game and
its social side, the “Cru” welcomes
all players and supporters.
Established in 1990, the Cru plays
in the Shuto League 1st Division.
http://www.facebook.com/tokyo.
crusaders www.tokyocrusaders.
com
TA M B O U R E L L I . U n i q u e n e w
s p or t from S cotla n d . U s in g a
tambourine-like instrument as a
racquet, players hit a shuttlecock.
We play two or three times/month
on weekends in Meguro with many
socials. Join us! More details: www.
tamjapan.org/en/ info@tamjapan.
org
Basketball in the Yokohama area.
Good intermediate games every Mon
and Wed night at a local school's gym.
Feel free to come. It's free. Please
contact for further details. satoru.
[email protected]
Cricket. Cricket. Cricket! Play
cricket with the Chiba Sharks Cricket
Club! Teams in JCA Division 1, Division
2, T20 and monthly indoor training.
Indoor Winter League starting soon!
Men/women, all nationalities, abilities
welcome. Never too late to play!
[email protected] http://
www.chibasharks.com
Futsal team. Interested in futsal on
weekends in Tokyo? Please introduce
yourself (age, nationality, where you
live, whether you belong to another
team). [email protected]
Hiking friends. Japanese-Korean
female nonsmoker is seeking a free
hiking club and friends. I speak fluent
English and good French. saya_ch@
live.jp
Quality football. Interested in
playing football at the weekend and
MCARTHUR HEIGHTS.
Take a break where General Douglas
McArthur did! One hour from Tokyo
by car or direct train. Beautiful
cabins on the ocean, w/onsen, beach,
shopping. mcarthurheights@yahoo.
com
13.3 ARTS
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS. Specialists
in branding, web design, photo/
vi d e o p ro d u c ti o n . D rawi n g A
Crowd: a new approach in design.
Get in touch. info@drawingacrowd.
co
American comics. Seeking fans of
American comics to meet, chat and
share ideas. Maybe we can work on
projects to get published or just have
a good time talking about comics.
[email protected]
Independent filmmaker seeks
volunteer production assistants and
Japanese/foreign actors for a short
mobster film shooting Dec 14-15 near
Isogo stn, Yokohama. Film will be
submitted to many fests. Students
welcome. assassin.wolves.films@
gmail.com
13.4 MUSIC
Funk/rock band seeking guitarist.
Bass, drums and vocals seeking an
experienced guitarist into funk and
rock. We're into RHCP, Rage Against
the Machine, Sublime, the Meters,
Parliament/Funkadelic, Cypress Hill,
Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, etc.
[email protected]
Seeking female vocalist.
Established rock band seeking
female singer. Attitude essential.
Band performs monthly in Tokyo
area. [email protected] http://
www.arthurpentameter.net
Strong, beautiful, flexible
Transform your body & soul at
BASI PILATES!
Offering you “Authentic Pilates”
Metropolis Campaign
Admission Fee: ¥15,750 ¥0
Trial Machine Private Lesson: ¥10,000 ¥8,400
Package 3 Machine
Private Lessons
¥30,000 ¥18,000
Machine Private Lessons available at our Roppongi studio
Lessons in English available
Studios in Roppongi, Ginza, Nakameguro and more
03-6425-7054 • [email protected]
www.basipilates.jp/english/
Singer wanted. I'm a JM guitarist.
We need a singer to add to our music.
New ideas welcome to make a good
concert. Composers, beginners
welcome. Tokyo area. I like pop, rock,
punk. Let's play music! riku_hiroxx@
hotmail.com
Violinist wanted to play northern
European/Scandinavian music
together. Already have pianist,
guitarist, bassist and percussionist.
[email protected]
13.5 MIND, BODY, SPIRIT
Reiki share. Non-profit Reiki share
group. We meet twice/month in the
Ueno area. Other healing modalities
are ok, too. [email protected]
Zen meditation (Zazen). You’ve
always thought it would be interesting
to try it - why not now? Join us Fri
evenings at Tokuun-in in Ueno.
Make arrangements in advance by
email, and check our home page.
wgthorpe.com
14 PERSONALS
14.1 FRIENDS
Around 40! JF, around 40, seeks
new female friends for nights out.
All my friends have gotten married,
feeling a bit isolated from the dating
world. Preferably around my age and
not into Sex and the City, please. nmi.
[email protected]
Dining friends. SJF, early 40s,
seeking friends who can go out for
dinner on weekdays and weekends.
Minato-ku area preferred. luv.
[email protected]
English guy for friends near
Otemachi. English guy seeking
lunch/drink friends near Otemachi/
Tokyo stn. I came to Japan last
month, but have lived here before.
Japanese or non-Japanese ok.
[email protected]
Many more Classified ads online! Please visit classifieds.metropolis.co.jp
Musician? Hello, I'm a SJF. I speak
English. Can any guitar players
teach me? I'm free after work or on
weekends. [email protected]
Seeking illustrators. I'm a Canadian
writer (published) seeking Japanese
illustrators who are interested in
collaborating on children's picture books.
My themes are healing and peace, the
kinds of 絵本 that adults can enjoy as well
as children. Japanese ok. philcoecc@
gmail.com
14.2 MEN LOOKING FOR
WOMEN
DIVORCED? Canadian man, late
4 0 s , i n o p e n m a r r i a g e (ve r y
special circum stance s) seeks
divorced woman for friendship
first. I respect people who have the
courage to make changes. I'm a
kindhearted, caring man, interested
in art, film, philosophy, psychology.
[email protected]
HANDSOME JM SEEKS SINCERE
WOMAN IN TOKYO. Successful
Japanese businessman, early 30s,
bilingual, good-looking, caring,
seeks something long-term,
potentially leading to marriage.
If interested, please feel free to
drop me a line. Photo preferred.
[email protected]
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Still seeking batsu-ichi. I'm an
African living and working in central
Tokyo seeking a serious divorced JF
for a serious friendship leading to a
relationship. Must be serious. No junk
mail, please. [email protected]
Español, English, 日本語. Englishman,
50s, wants to learn basic Sp with a view
to living in Spain. Seeking a female
teacher. Can teach E to a Japanese
lady or J to a Spanish lady. Live in NishiShinjku. [email protected]
080-2384-1924
SWM seeks SJF. H a n d s o m e
professional, tall, fit and athletic, seeks
very slim, attractive JF for romance,
travel, fun and building a relationship
together. Take this chance; you'll be glad
you did! Email, w/photo appreciated.
[email protected]
Hanging out on evenings/weekends.
Professional, respectful male, new to
Tokyo, is seeking a female for evenings/
weekends. I like chatting over coffee,
movies, concerts, long walks. We can
discuss more later. furugh2002@
yahoo.com
I want you. Feeling lonely and wish
you had someone to share with and
care for? We've got that in common, so
look no more and drop me a line. I like
movies, travel and drinking. sv925a@
yahoo.com
Kind, generous, honest American
man, 41, 176cm, 75kg, muscular, brown
hair, blue eyes, with a good stable job,
seeks a long-term relationship with
a fun, down-to-earth, fashionable
Japanese woman. pomjontokyo@
hotmail.com
MARRIED MAN SEEKING WOMAN.
There is something that I have
missed in my life. Seeking a friend
to share some good moments
(talking, having romantic dinners
and more). Please send your photo
to [email protected].
Lazy weekends together? Seeking
attractive and curvy girlfriend,
160cm+, who is fun to be around and
seeking intimacy in the Tokyo area. I'm
a generous Afro-American male from
NY, 35, 183cm, athletic build, intelligent,
honest, working in IT. Interested?
[email protected]
SUBMISIVE SJM, 35, cute, is seriously
seeking a woman who is into, or
interested in, dominating men. I am
so submissive, with seven years’
experience, that I am happy to take
whatever and serve you in any way.
[email protected]
Long-haired Japanese guy. SJM,
40s, cool and honest, seeks nice
female friend who is open-minded
and likes to communicate. I enjoy
movies, rock music, taking pictures,
relaxing walks, etc. Let's get to know
each other. seventh-heaven999@mail.
goo.ne.jp
Are you tall? I'm dying to meet a nice,
tall, special woman (165cm and up) here
in Tokyo. I'm young, American, very
fit. Any race/country ok. I just find tall
women gorgeous! shallumain@yahoo.
co.jp
Mature lady. Parisian Frenchman,
30s, easygoing, attractive, tall, seeking
a charming, well-dressed Japanese
lady, 30-55, for a daytime romance in
Tokyo. If you contact me, I will reply.
[email protected]
Attractive French guy, 26, seeking a
woman, 18-34, to hang out, enjoy coffee,
have a wonderful time together. I speak
Japanese. [email protected]
Muslim marriage. Single guy,
30, seriously seeking someone for
marriage. I am a moderate Muslim
(believer in Islam), and am seeking
someone with the same or similar faith.
Introducing a third person is welcome,
too. Thank you. akashjp3000@yahoo.
com
Bad man seeks good woman! Actually
a good guy, but need some TLC from a
very slim English-speaking JF, 35+. You'll
get lots of attention, romance and some
great times! A real relationship that's truly
worth it starts here! nightwatchblue@
gmail.com
Big black guy for you. I want to give
beautiful ladies lots of fun. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Skilled, very experienced,
well-muscled, no strings attached. Find
what you've been missing. tokioitelive@
gmail.com
British male, 31, friendly, tall, slim,
seeking a nice girl to hang out with.
Nationality/race unimpor tant ,
but should be 20-35 and have a
nice personality. Interested in
music and film: you should be, too.
[email protected]
Nice American guy, 34, nonsmoker,
doesn’t drink, very healthy, blue eyes,
seeking a fun girl to hang out with and
laugh. Let's see where that takes us.
[email protected]
Older women. I'm an attractive SJM,
26, seeking older foreign women
in Tokyo. European or American
preferred. Let's get some drinks and see
how it goes. [email protected]
One for me. American male seeking
long-term relationship, but friends
first. I like a girl who smiles a lot and
who has a good sense of humor. It's
ok if you have a career; I have one, too.
[email protected]
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eyes, intelligent, 173cm, into music,
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Horoscope BY CATHRYN MOE
♥ Love ¥ Money ♣ Luck
ARIES
TAURUS
S ome days you st r u g g le a s t he
moments drip slowly by. Other times
you’re flying through open portals now
appearing around the world. Emotions have a lot
to do with your ticket to these dimensions. The
testing ground has begun. How you hold to your
inner whispers, shouts, and how you act on your
truth when it hits lights up the map that no one else
has found. You’re the trail blazer. Blaze away.
It’s time to drop the doubts and move
ahead. You’ve gone through a crisis in
consciousness with the Pluto – Uranus
square forcing you to let go of old patterns of
interaction. How you treat yourself is the reigning
factor at the moment. The universe is reading
your list and checking it twice. Have you asked
for everything nice? Praying for what’s flawed but
tempting just won’t cut it anymore. Patience! Ahh…
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While Gemini does not like to get
caught or pinned down in any way,
most of you have planets in your chart
that are in water or earth signs in addition to your
air Sun. If you’ve been uneven with all your latest
personal events, it’s worth lending yourself to the
feelings that clear away doubt and fear (water) and
grounding yourself for the future (earth). Clearly
you need a flexible door and a partner who lets
you talk!
You can’t get away from the expansion
in your life. With Dark Moon Lilith
reeling from her latest manifesting
abilities, and Jupiter climbing all over the last
degrees of the Cancer Moon, you have to do
something. Expression is paramount to keep
yourself from bursting. Pay no attention to the
man behind the curtain. He is only the final gasp
of the subconscious mind you have started to
reprogram this week.
LEO
VIRGO
Don’t assume it’s easy come, easy go
this week. If something drifts into your
sphere, you may well have earned it.
There’s just no accounting for the accumulated
interest you may have from all your good deeds.
Leos don’t mind being in charge, because others
definitely listen to you. But right now you may feel
you have given so much, it’s time to sit back and
see who has the courage to approach your throne.
Mars in your sign gives you the
courage to go for something you usually shy away from. Not that you don’t
want it, you do. But Virgos are notoriously shy and
hide their feelings in a myriad of endless details.
The details are scattering out of your grasp with
Neptune and Chiron opposite Virgo in your seventh house of commitment. Healing comes from
feeling those tendrils of reality that are floating by.
LIBRA
SCORPIO
Balance, balance, slippery balance.
You have Pluto and Venus, your ruler,
covering your back in your solar
fourth house. Are those shadows real
or just in the nether regions of your previous life?
Regardless of how something looks on the surface,
Pluto insists you delve deeper. Venus wants you
to be with your true love, making a home that
reflects the light that you are. What seems elusive
may be growing roots just for you.
In between the rainbows, clouds and
sunshine you are carving out the place
that is really yours. The layers of protection start to drop off this week. The flip
side of stinging Scorpio is penetrating compassion. All the water signs are emotional healers.
But if you have met your match it’s time to invest
yourself in the dreams you haven’t dared to dive
into. Go for what you don’t know and see if you
reach the surface in time to catch your breath.
SAGITTARIUS
CAPRICORN
Your lucky streak continues to brighten
the night sky like the tail of a comet this
week. Logic goes out the window as you
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continuum known as your schedule. There’s just
too much good stuff rolling in around you, and you
don’t see why you should have to miss out on any
of it. True, you won’t get much sleep, but why let
that stop you? You can always take cat naps later…
Capricorns are taking it on the chin
as much or more than the rest of the
zodiac. So much of what you have been
told, believed, and worked for is being
dismantled without much chance of it being glued
back together. Crazy as it sounds, it’s really time.
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you’ve arrived in a place where you can have fun
being true to yourself. Things come and go only
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While the bristles and thorns try to catch
at your ankles, you’re able to avoid the
silly hooks now offered by those who
weren’t paying attention. The new
muscles you’ve created on the emotional plane
mean others aren’t able to reach in and borrow
your energy whenever they want to. There’s a stability now available that simply wasn’t before. It’s
called being responsible more directly to yourself.
Your strength is your talent for going
with the flow. In fact, you may have
found it impossible to do otherwise
lately. The whole point of the shake up
that’s going on is to take you to your vibrational
match. There’s no point in scaring yourself silly
just to repeat an old pattern that never worked
anyway. The hook is trying to ‘prove yourself’’; the
release is turning all that love inward to restore,
repair, and renew.
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The Last Word
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PLAYING BY THE RULES
Tokyoites do it and still radiate cool
By Annemarie Luck
CHRISTI ROCHIN
Annemarie Luck is a writer and copy
editor who followed her heart all the way
from Cape Town to Tokyo.
E
very time I stand at a traffic
light in Tokyo, waiting to
cross the road, I marvel at
the patience of pedestrians.
Traffic-jammed highway or car-less
obscure side street, nobody walks
until the little green man sings.
Coming from South Africa, where
jaywalking is as common as lions
roaming the streets (okay, they don’t
really roam, but you believed me,
didn’t you?) and jumping a red light
at night to avoid getting carjacked
doesn’t raise an eyebrow, you can
imagine my awe. As a law-abiding
citizen who only really breaks the
rules in situations like the above,
I find myself relishing this profound
respect for the little red man—as if
it’s somehow the answer to all lawlessness. If every country could just
get their people to remember that
red means stop and green means
go, we could solve half the world’s
problems.
Okay, I’m deliberately exaggerating, but as a model for crowd control,
I think I’m on to something. Just
how Japanese society manages to
instill such a sense of lawfulness in
its people fascinates me—especially
considering that the number of people living in Tokyo is near to South
Africa’s entire population.
W hen I f irst arrived here si x
months ago, I read about the Japanese saying: deru kugi wa utareru
(“the nail that sticks out gets hammered down”). Now that I’ve seen
this informal yet ingrained rule of
conformity in action, I can vouch
for its merits. In South Africa, something as simple as renewing your
passport could take anywhere from
six weeks to three months, depending on whether your documents get
“misplaced” along the way or not. So
I’m continuously amazed by people,
on a mass scale, doing the things
they’re meant to do, when they’re
meant to do it—like an entire train
transport system running on time
to the exact minute. (On the flipside,
I’m also amazed that we’re still using
faxes here, but that’s another story.)
Of course, I’ve heard alternative opinions on the matter, of the
oppression this conformity inevitably leads to. And I’m well aware that
Haruki Murakami’s popularity has
plenty to do with his rebel streak; his
conviction for preserving the individual. But there’s something to be
said about order in the city.
I’m all for creativ it y and outof-the-box thinking. In fact, most
South Africans like to justif y the
volatilit y in our countr y by saying it gives us an edge; a vibrant,
innovative culture where anything
is possible. But most people who
are not emotionally attached to
the country still ask, “Is that really
worth risking your life for?”
Japan, on the other hand, seems
to enjoy the best of both worlds in
this regard, at least from where I’m
standing. I don’t have to worry about
being pushed off my mamachari by
someone wanting to steal my bike
out under me in hot daylight. I’m not
too concerned about a banged-up,
bass-thumping taxi careering into me
as I casually cycle through Shibuya
without a helmet (a safety prerequisite on Johannesburg’s roads). At the
same time, I also know that inspiration is around every corner here, in the
form of ever-cool fashion; restaurants
where attention to details extends far
beyond just the food; and art galleries
galore. Somehow Japan has managed
to cocktail conformity with edge.
To me, it’s like wearing socks with
heels. Something you only see and
read about in aspirational fashion
magazines, Tokyoites actually manage to get right on an everyday basis.
No fuss. They just carry on with the
business of being inherently stylish.
No matter how harsh the humidity (socks at 35 degrees?), no matter
what length their skirt (aren’t you
always meant to show off ankles
when wearing a maxi?), the pretty
frilled stocking remains a staple of
Japanese wardrobe culture. I don’t
know any where else in the world
where the woman on the street has
adopted this trend so effortlessly.
And with such conformity.
It k ind of brings new, literal
meaning to the term “playing by the
rules.”
As I continue to connect the dots
of Japanese culture and wait for the
bigger picture to reveal itself, I’ve
started thinking—maybe next time
I go home for a visit, I’ll wear socks
with heels every day and start a revolution. We each have to do our bit for
society, right?
I’M CONTINUOSLY
AMAZED BY
PEOPLE, ON A MASS
SCALE, DOING THE
THINGS THEY’RE
MEANT TO DO WHEN
THEY’RE MEANT TO
DO IT.”
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