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People | CLOSE-UP Feb 7, 2010

Fram Kitagawa: Brushing with authority

by Nobuko Tanaka

I will never forget the day I went to a show titled "Embracing Asia: Taeko Tomiyama Retrospective 1950-2009," which was one of 370 art exhibits by creators from 40 countries comprising the fourth Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial staged over 50 days last autumn at locations ...

People | CLOSE-UP Jan 3, 2010

Jake Adelstein: Insider reaching out

by Mark Schreiber

Author Joshua "Jake" Adelstein supposes that if he'd stayed home in rural Missouri and had never come to Japan, he'd probably have become a small-town lawyer or a very happy detective on the local police force. "I was always attracted to the law, probably because ...