Picture Pikachu on a noir trip, popped loose of the 2-D plane. That is an association you might make when entering the echoey, black-and-white, 3-D animated world of the 12-minute film "JoJo in the Stars." With its absorbing look, it offers an entirely new experience. And ...
Those who bought their first digital camera several years ago spent upwards of 100,000 yen on bulky hunks that shot mediocre photos at best. But today the industry is ready for the late adopters. Digital cameras have rapidly come down in price, they shoot better pictures ...
The astronauts are playing with their food. One sends an M&M gliding across the Space Station cabin for another to catch in his mouth, but the receiver hits his head on a floating can of tuna. Another releases an orange toward the audience. Thunk. It hits us ...
JUDGMENT AT TOKYO: The Japanese War Crimes Trials, by Tim Maga. University Press of Kentucky, 2001, 200 pp., $25 (cloth). Fifty-six years since Japan's surrender, World War II's legacy continues to make headlines: Compensation sought by sex slaves; Controversy rages over history textbooks; Prime ...
When "based on a true story" flashes on the screen, many moviegoers are left cold, knowing that Hollywood obliterates so much of the truth in pursuit of dramatic arc and tried-and-true narrative formulas. Documentary film allows a much smaller margin for manipulation, and the ...
Can't get enough of the Internet at your home and office? Well, now connectivity is coming after you in those places you live in between -- your car, the train station, the airport, the hotel and the coffee shop, to name a few. Of course, i-mode ...
VOICES FROM S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison, by David Chandler. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999, pp. 238, $17.95. Men, women and children are arrested on the basis of rumor, rounded up in trucks and hauled, without trial, to prison, ...
Water's three states converge at ground level in Yamagata Prefecture in winter: The white stuff never seems to stop falling, and the hot spring water never fails to bubble up, sending steam into the chilly air. That makes it an ideal spot for Japan's treasured ...
Gateway is bullish on Japan, especially on the smaller businesses it is targeting, and the computer maker is counting on a perhaps unlikely character to help make the sale: a mouthless, bespectacled, befuddled -- yet likable -- dweeb named Dilbert. Creator Scott Adam's long-suffering poster ...
Japan 00: An International Comparison. Tokyo, Keizai Koho Center 2000, 120 pp., 900 yen. The cost of living in Japan weighs heavily on everyone, but those of us who have come from other countries feel it more acutely -- we remember apples so cheap ...
