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People | CLOSE-UP Jun 4, 2006

How shall we dance?

by Nobuko Tanaka

This summer, the movie that shot Johnny Depp to Hollywood stardom, Tim Burton's 1990 fantasy "Edward Scissorhands," comes to Japan as a live dance stage created and directed by Matthew Bourne. Following its November 2005 London premier, a U.K. tour of the production played to ...

People | CLOSE-UP May 7, 2006

May Shigenobu: A life less ordinary

by Mayumi Negishi

In November 2000, May Shigenobu stood speechless in front of her TV set in Beirut, staring at crackly satellite images of her mother, Fusako Shigenobu, giving the thumbs-up and smiling as she was led away by police in Osaka, half a world away. To May, ...