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DENIED. Final appeal by Shoko Asahara, 51, messianic leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, of a 2004 death sentence for masterminding the 1995 sarin-gas attack on Tokyo's subway that killed 12 people and injured 5,000; by Japan's Supreme Court; in Tokyo. His appeals exhausted, Asahara faces death by hanging, although no date has been set for his execution...
...STEPPING DOWN. Heizo Takenaka, 55, finance minister from 2001-2005 credited with helping engineer Japan's economic revival; in Tokyo. His controversial reforms halved Japanese banks' non-performing loans, saving many from collapse, and helped initiate the privatization of Japan's gigantic postal savings system. Currently Internal Affairs Minister, he has said he will retire when Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's term ends on Sept...
...movements in regional art. Regulars on the Asian art circuit, such as Indian-born British sculptor Anish Kapoor and controversial Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei, have signed up to participate this year. The show also coincides with the opening of the new Queensland Gallery of Modern Art. OGAKI: Japan has long been a pioneer in media art (the name given to work created with new, mostly digital, technologies), but the country has tended to ignore its neighbors in favor of installation makers from the West. The Ogaki Biennale (Oct. 6-15) hopes to redress this with Japan's first major...
...flawless “Breathless,” and Truffaut’s classic “The 400 Blows.” We hear the class is relatively painless, though it is taught in French. Parlez-vous anglais? Non! A new offering, FC 85, “Japan Pop: From Basho to Banana,” teaches anime and manga, alongside other eclectic elements of Japanese popular culture. FC 72, “Russian Culture from Revolution to Perestroika,” taught by well-liked professor Svetlana Boym, offers Revolution-era avant-garde art, socialist realist works (including...
...condensing a gargantuan subject into manageable themes and case studies also wows students with her sophisticated fashion sense. Aesthetics aside, Cosmo readers and African history enthusiasts alike appreciate this class’s reasonable course load.Asian fetishists, head on over to Historical Study A-14 “Japan: Traditions and Transformations.” The class is difficult, and readings are extensive, but individual TFs are good and lecture on their areas of expertise. One enthusiastic TF, who had just gotten back from spending a year in Tokyo, delighted students with her appreciation for one of the assigned movies...