The transition to telephony as an app on a broadband network is simple technologically, but challenging to established telephone companies. … Read the post incumbent transition faster to VoIP in Japan than in U.S.
Imagine plucking a lute slowly and deliberately. The impulse could arise from emotions within yourself. But possibilities for inspiration other than the self also exist. Sukeyasu Shiba’s Gagaku Universe, performed this past Wednesday evening by the Reigakusha Gagaku Ensemble at the Freer Gallery, drew inspiration from within and from without, from relations with objects and … Continue reading Sukeyasu Shiba's expansive inspiration
Every Sunday afternoon, Japanese youths gather on Jingu Bridge in Tokyo to display their fashions, to express themselves through their attire, and to socialize with others doing the same. Shops in the area have opened to sell this street chic fashion known as Harajuku. The shops both take fashion merchandising leads from the gathered youths … Continue reading real goods in well-established social networking
From the 1920s through the 1950s, many persons earned a living performing stories (“kamishibai”) for free on the streets of Japan. The kamishibai performers moved image cards through a wooden picture frame to provide a visual complement to their verbal narratives. They sought to build a regular audience by performing stories that continued across days. … Continue reading moving pictures before television
Alone in bed, her black hair untied across her pillow, she laments the white snow piling up in it. The open-faced puppeteer moves with her, their gestures double, her loneliness is his loneliness. In many forms of puppetry, the puppeteer isn’t visible. In Bunraku, a famous Japanese style of puppetry, three puppeteers visible on stage … Continue reading puppet and puppeteer