18 Reasons. Fish Meat: Ted Caplow documentary about modern fish farming. Wed., July 31, 7 p.m. $12. www.brownpapertickets.com/event/414406. 3674 18th St., San Francisco, 241-9760,…
Formed in the early '90s, when guitarist Wata, bassist/guitarist Takeshi, and drummer Atsuo met while attending a Tokyo art school, the Japanese experimentalists in…
It’s said that Nanao Sakaki made a practice of never sleeping in the same place twice. The Japanese poet worked many jobs, sometimes living…
The Shinyokohama Ramen Museum near Tokyo recognizes 26 different regional varieties of ramen, yet most Americans are only familiar with one that isn't on…
To Americans, breakfast means Belgian waffles doused in syrup, fried eggs, and greasy sausage — in other words, sugar, fat, and more fat. But…
Post-rock isn't a genre where much changes — both within the style's fundamental sound and the post-rock scene at large — but Mono's music…
At least 15,000 people died in the March 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan. Vestiges of those lives — portraits of happy couples, kids playing…
The buzz over the Tupac hologram may have abated, but the reign of the holograms hasn't, especially at the annual two-day explosion of Japanese…
A few weeks ago, Japanese Master Potter Akio Nukaga — basically a ceramics god in Japan — held a pottery-throwing demonstration to kick off…
When I lived in Tokyo, I always felt that dessert wasn't part of the food culture. When dessert was presented at all, it wasn't…
