Bunraku
Bunraku, named after the theater manager Uemura Bunrakuken (1737–1810), is the most revered of Japan's many forms of puppet theater (ningyo shibai). Three arts are intertwined in...
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Japan expands aid to Mekong nations, urge Myanmar to democratize
TOKYO - Japan unveiled plans Wednesday to allocate aid to fund
infrastructure and poverty-reduction projects in C...
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There were no boos for one of opera's biggest cads.To the contrary, the despicable Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton drew rousing applause at the Metropolitan Opera House as tenor Roberto Alagna poured o...
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History was made at the Golden Globes. On Monday night, we television viewers gasped as the unthinkable unfurled before our eyes: Hollywood, it would appear, has abandoned its lefty point of view a...
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