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Akita City “Kanto Matsuri” performance – 2024 Honolulu Festival
19 April 2025 7:57 AM | No CommentsThe Akita City Kanto Festival Executive Committee performed at the 2024 Honolulu Festival, showcasing music and pole-balancing stunts from its annual Kanto Matsuri.
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Petit Bateau Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
19 April 2025 5:39 AM | No CommentsWhy did a 132-year-old French casualwear brand, mostly focusing on children's fashion, decide to show at the Tokyo Fall/Winter 2025 collections?
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tiit tokyo Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
18 April 2025 9:30 PM | No CommentsAccording to the Rakuten Fashion Week TOKYO show notes, for the Fall/Winter 2025 season, the designers were "inspired by the Danish film "When Animals Dream.""
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Sumo: 73rd yokozuna Terunofuji retires, leaves lasting legacy
10 April 2025 11:57 AM | No CommentsThe Mongolian's calm, regal presence in the dohyo will certainly be missed, but there is no rest for the weary.
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Photos: Yousuke Haga – New York Fashion Week Fall 2025
24 March 2025 3:05 AM | No CommentsPhotos from the Yousuke Haga - Asia Fashion Collection runway show in New York.
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Travel Archive
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Mnemonikos exhibit in Bangkok stretches limit of textiles
Kwai ChanPosted on January 11, 2014 | No CommentsRope, Teflon, tea bags and recycled bottles were just some of the materials used in the mnēmonikos exhibit on display at the Jim Thompson Center through Feb. 22. -
Indian Festive Food Week to hit six U.S. locations in January
Christopher BournePosted on December 15, 2013 | No CommentsThe weeklong celebration of Indian cuisine will run from Jan. 12 to 19 in New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Francisco. -
Searching for Hong Kong cinema in Macau
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on May 29, 2013 | No CommentsWhat is a mere 40 miles between two administrative regions in China? Plenty, as it turns out from a cinematic standpoint. -
Hong Kong’s Golden Harvest tribute: Nostalgia through film, footage
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on May 5, 2013 | No CommentsFor the next generation of film fans, the Hong Kong Film Archive’s efforts in keeping Golden Harvest's films alive should serve as a required reminder of an important era in cinema history. -
Retracing ’60s and ’70s Cambodian cinema, one building at a time
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on April 17, 2013 | No CommentsInspired by Davy Chou's documentary "Golden Slumbers," the author set out in search of Phnom Penh theaters from the golden age of Cambodian film. -
Our top 2012 video: North Korean girl wows on xylophone and drums
Meniscus MagazinePosted on January 5, 2013 | No CommentsVideo footage of a percussionist in Pyongyang, appearing to be no older than six, captured the attention of many of our readers, including a bogus television network and Bob Bryar of My Chemical Romance. -
Pizza Brain: Food, memorabilia and culture in Philadelphia
Scott MillerPosted on December 31, 2012 | No CommentsIn the Fishtown neighborhood, four friends have made the dream of a pizza museum a reality. -
![Although the subject of this long-delayed second column was to focus on an education of ramen in the dish’s motherland, a recent bout of cold weather and the calendar have […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/kogashi-miso-ramen-115x115.jpg "Battling crowds, assumptions, hunger: Ramen at New York’s Ippudo")
Battling crowds, assumptions, hunger: Ramen at New York’s Ippudo
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on December 16, 2010 | No CommentsAlthough the subject of this long-delayed second column was to focus on an education of ramen in the dish’s motherland, a recent bout of cold weather and the calendar have […] -
![To the outside world, South Africa still projects imagery from the apartheid era, signifying political unrest in a dangerous, newly uncertain nation. To visitors, the young democracy optimistically casts one […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/dscn5761-115x115.jpg "World Cup turns South Africa into one global party")
World Cup turns South Africa into one global party
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 4, 2010 | No CommentsTo the outside world, South Africa still projects imagery from the apartheid era, signifying political unrest in a dangerous, newly uncertain nation. To visitors, the young democracy optimistically casts one […] -
SXSWXF (South by Southwest by Food): A Glutton’s Guide to Austin
Wade-Hahn ChanPosted on December 22, 2009 | No CommentsThe motto of the average Austinite is “Keep Austin Weird,” but there’s nothing strange about Austin’s chow.