This week on Tokyo Music Hour on Monocle Radio, Nick Luscombe speaks to Tokyo based writer and label boss at Call and Response Records, Ian F. Martin, about his new book Tokyo Doesn't Exist: Not a Gui...

Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi spent nearly three decades in Lebanon alongside the Palestinian resistance. Today, stripped of his passport and largely ignored at home, he’s making the most politically alive cinema in Japan at 87 years old.

William Andrews’ new book explores Adachi Masao's radical cinema, the Japanese New Left, and decades of involvement with the infamous Japanese Red Army.

William Andrews’ book is the first English giant upon whose shoulders people interested in Masao Adachi and his oeuvre can stand on.

We seem to have entered a new phase in historical memory vis-à-vis the New Left in Japan in which the focus is gradually moving away from an emphasis on the spectacular showdowns between the state …

Asakusa is housed in a small residential property built in 1965 in Asakusa, one of the Tokyo’s most bustling tourist districts, and is located steps away from busy streets in a secluded area where 20 ...

There is an irresistible temptation to read filmmaker Adachi Masao’s life as if it were itself a movie. A Japanese New Wave filmmaker disappears into Lebanon, becomes associated with the Japanese Red ...

John talks to Tokyo-based researcher, writer and translator William Andrews about Pink Auteur, Red Outlaw, his new biography of this provocative filmmaker and revolutionary.

What started as dry goods shops serving the elite became sprawling emporiums that helped usher in an age of mass consumption.

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岡本公三さん追悼集会・オリオンの会主催葬送ではなく祝祭を！　１９７２年、イスラエル・リッダ空港襲撃闘争に向かった日本人３戦士は、「死して後、オリオンの３つ星になる」と決意していた。銃撃戦は苛烈に戦われ、３人のうち奥平剛士さん安田安之さんは戦死し、１人生き

Patricia G. Steinhoff, Portrait of a Terrorist: An Interview with Kozo Okamoto, Asian Survey, Vol. 16, No. 9, Sep., 1976

Kozo Okamoto, a Japanese militant involved in a deadly attack on Tel Aviv’s airport over 50 years ago, has died in Beirut at 78

The July 17 passing into law of Japan’s new flag desecration law sparked concerns regarding the creation and display of art around the country.

On 26 June, the Tokyo High Court handed down a ruling in an appeal filed by three bereaved family members seeking damages from the state over the death of left-wing activist Hoshino Fumiaki in 2019…

Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is being made into a film