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Why did the athletes at the Tokyo Olympics march in to video game music? How Japanese game scores made it into the world’s concert halls
When the Tokyo Olympics opened in 2021, the first music to play as the athletes entered was from Dragon Quest. How did melodies that once came out of a home video game console end up in concert halls from Tokyo to London, Paris and Los Angeles?
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Japanese Ikebana Is Obsessed With Vases. Why Did a Grand Master Arrange Flowers in Rubber Boots? Atsunobu Katagiri’s Eight Months in Fukushima
In Japanese ikebana, there are rules even for the angle of a single flower. When the grand master of an ikebana school walked onto a coast devastated by a nuclear disaster, with no vase and no room to display flowers in, what was left of those rules?