{"id":37574,"date":"2015-04-03T17:28:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T21:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=37574"},"modified":"2015-04-03T17:28:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T21:28:02","slug":"justins-japan-nippon-in-new-york-attack-on-titan-isamu-noguchi-mitsuko-uchida-sakura-matsuri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/03\/justins-japan-nippon-in-new-york-attack-on-titan-isamu-noguchi-mitsuko-uchida-sakura-matsuri\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin\u2019s Japan: Nippon in New York \u2014 \u2018Attack on Titan,\u2019 Isamu Noguchi, Mitsuko Uchida, Sakura Matsuri"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Escape<\/a>

Escape from the Walled City<\/em>, a live team puzzle solving challenge based on Attack on Titan<\/em>, comes to Richmond County Bank Ballpark April 11. (SCRAP Entertainment Inc.)<\/p><\/div>\n

By<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/em>JQ<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his Japanese culture page\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for related stories.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Spring has sprung in the Big Apple, and that means one thing: a new season of sounds, colors, and spectacular performing arts to match the blossoming sakura trees throughout the city.<\/p>\n

This month\u2019s highlights include:<\/p>\n

Now through April 26<\/strong><\/p>\n

Takahiro Iwasaki: In Focus<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Asia Society<\/a>, 725 Park Avenue<\/strong><\/p>\n

$12\/$10 seniors\/$7 students; free on Fridays from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Takahiro Iwasaki creates detailed miniature landscapes using towels, toothbrushes, used clothing, and other found and recycled materials. This exhibition is a part of Asia Society Museum\u2019s ongoing In Focus<\/a><\/em> series, which invites contemporary artists to create new works, often in conversation with the Asia Society Museum\u2019s permanent collection of traditional Asian art.<\/p>\n

April 5-May 3 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

East Meets West Brunch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Blue Note Jazz Club<\/a>, 131 West Third Street<\/strong><\/p>\n

$35<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blue Note Jazz Club and the Japan Foundation present the\u00a0East Meets West Brunch\u00a0series to introduce Japanese jazz to New York audiences. This brunch series will take place on five consecutive Sundays this spring, and features food, music and a drink. Performers include Mika Mimura Group (April 5), Hiromi Suda (April 12), Martha Kato Trio (April 19), Sumie Kaneko (April 26), and the Takeshi Ohbayashi Trio (May 3).<\/p>\n

Saturday, April 11, 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Escape from the Walled City<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Richmond County Bank Ballpark<\/a>, 75 Richmond Terrace (Staten Island)<\/strong><\/p>\n

$30, $35 at the door<\/strong><\/p>\n

The titans are coming, and they\u2019re hungry. Based on the manga megahit\u00a0Attack on Titan<\/em>, the newest Real Escape Game (REG) takes players to a world inhabited by giant, humanoid creatures that live for no other purpose than to make a snack of all of us. The high walls of the stadium are the only thing keeping you safe\u2026for now. Experience the latest edition of SCRAP\u2019s interactive storytelling and puzzle-solving games on a scale never seen before. Join\u00a0thousands of other players\u00a0as you decode clues inside a real stadium! Be warned, though: survival isn\u2019t easy, and teamwork will be essential if you hope to survive. After already hosting over 40,000 players in the U.S. to date, Escape<\/em> requires participants to use their best detective skills as they race against the clock.<\/p>\n

For the complete story, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his Japanese culture page\u00a0here\u00a0for related stories. Spring has sprung in the Big Apple, and that means one thing: a new season of sounds, colors, and spectacular performing arts to match the blossoming sakura trees throughout the city. This month\u2019s highlights include: Now through April 26 Takahiro Iwasaki: In Focus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75,4,53,340,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-articlejournalism","category-events","category-justins-japan","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-9M2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37576,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37574\/revisions\/37576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}