A stage work written and directed by Roba Shimori. Set in a sanitary product development office, it follows women working on a new product as they confront the body, labor, gender, and minority issues. Based on extensive research, it turns the development of an everyday item into an ensemble drama about social structures.

From a meeting room where sanitary products are designed, the lives of women and the biases of society come into view.

A film directed by Yoshiyuki Kishi, reimagining Shuji Terayama’s novel in contemporary Shinjuku. Shinji, played by Masaki Suda, and Barikan, played by Yang Ik-june, confront loneliness, violence, friendship, and love through boxing.

In a neon wilderness, two lonely men try to fill the void within themselves through their fists.

A public concert and selection event for the Akutagawa Award for Music Composition, organized by the Suntory Foundation for the Arts. The twenty-seventh edition presented candidate works and a public jury session, conducted by Yoichi Sugiyama, offering contemporary works to listeners while assessing their future promise.

A forum for contemporary music where performance and public selection are joined.

The New National Theatre Ballet’s production of Roland Petit’s Coppélia. Yudai Fukuoka appeared as Franz and was praised for elegance and deep understanding of the role, helping lift the whole performance. The ballet presents the classic doll tale as a modern story of love and life.

Within Roland Petit’s stylish staging, the lightness of Franz’s role helped drive the stage.

A story collection whose title piece follows a narrator who survived being buried alive in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and, twenty years later, confronts the memory of a lost girl through a reunion with an old friend. Against the backdrop of disasters, terrorism, and the expanded viewpoint of the internet age, it asks how people name the world and preserve relationships.

An unforgettable loss takes on a different outline through a reunion twenty years later.

Takahiro Iwasaki’s solo exhibition at the Japan Pavilion for the 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Through delicate landscape models made from everyday and fragile materials and a reversal of viewpoint from beneath the floor, it formed an installation that unsettled familiar scenery and values.

Looking up from beneath the pavilion reverses the very viewpoint from which landscape is seen.

This television drama follows Oei, the daughter of Katsushika Hokusai, as she continues to paint in the shadow of her father's overwhelming genius. Based on Makate Asai's novel, it condenses light and shadow, father-daughter tension, and a woman's artistic independence into a single drama.

Beside the dazzling light of Hokusai, Oei turns her own shadow into painting.

This project is tied to a commemorative rakugo performance and album marking a milestone in Hakushu Togetsuan's career. It presents classical rakugo with timing and pace that reach contemporary audiences, balancing sharp prefatory talk with polished storytelling.

In an anniversary year, Hakushu's classical rakugo rises through light poison and assured craft.

This is Midori Kubota's practice of Hyogen Miman through Creative Support Let's. It creates a place where the daily actions and intense interests of people with intellectual disabilities are received not as things that fall outside systems, but as sources of culture and expression.

An experiment that opens gestures before expression into questions about society and art.

This critical study rereads postwar literature by Taijun Takeda, Kenzaburo Oe, and Nobuo Kojima through animal representation and ethics toward others. It questions the familiar postwar ideal of restoring humanity and subjectivity, and uncovers the ethical problems literature still carries through violence against beings cast as animals.

From the animal voices heard in postwar literature, the book rethinks human-centered ethics.

A participatory art project led by Ei Wada that revives obsolete appliances as electronic instruments and builds orchestras and festivals with collaborators. Cathode-ray televisions, fans, ventilators, and other devices are transformed into instruments, turning technological memory into a festival of sound and bodies.

Old appliances are not waste; they begin to sound again as undiscovered electromagnetic instruments.