Sentence examples for devoted to the Japanese from inspiring English sources

Discussions, classes and concerts devoted to the Japanese bamboo flute.

There is an arena in which that is manifestly, explicitly true: the world of bento blogs — blogs devoted to the Japanese art of arranging a lunchbox.

Continuing the miniature retrospective devoted to the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike at the Anthology Film Archives, "The Happiness of the Katakuris" is a sour camp musical that trots out most of the standard signifiers of "outrageousness": graphic violence, kinky sex and parodies of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

McCaffrey Fine Art on East 67th Street has more abstract painting and a good dose of history: the first solo exhibition in the United States devoted to the Japanese artist Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008), who belonged to the radical Gutai group.

There was news the other day that so much of the British countryside is now devoted to the crop, Japanese tourists, bored with cherry blossom, are apparently flocking here to see it bloom.

The section of the exhibition devoted to the influence of Japanese printmaking on American artists, making up about a quarter of the show, reveals a moment when American art was in transition, with artists struggling to find their voice.

For this week's Goings On About Town opener, Yola Monakhov photographed the sculpture garden at the Noguchi Museum, designed by and devoted to the works of the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi.

By Jessie Wender July 29, 2011 For this week's Goings On About Town opener, Yola Monakhov photographed the sculpture garden at the Noguchi Museum, designed by and devoted to the works of the Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi.

(It also disfigures the handsome staircase carefully preserved in the recent renovation of the museum's West Wing). After this bit of marketing desperation, the show concludes with a gallery devoted to the daring work of the Japanese designers of the 1980's.

"We will continue to do what we can to reduce our footprint on this island," Mr. Clinton said this morning at a seaside memorial devoted to the more than 200,000 Japanese, Americans and others who died in 1945 during the fierce fighting of the Battle of Okinawa.

Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, (212) 975-5600, filmlinc.org; $11. (Dave Kehr) NAKADAI (Friday through Thursday) A continuing retrospective devoted to the films of Tatsuya Nakadai, the Japanese actor whose piercing eyes and towering stance have been employed by several of Japan's leading directors.