Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese pop pioneer and Oscar-winning composer, dies aged 71

Sakamoto was one of Japan’s most successful musicians, acclaimed for work in Yellow Magic Orchestra as well as solo albums and film scores Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Japanese musician whose remarkably eclectic career straddled pop, experimentalism and Oscar-winning film composition, has died aged 71. As a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra alongside Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro … Read more

Lula’s victory changed how I think about happiness – and made me believe it is possible for all | Yara Rodrigues Fowler

This supposedly intangible, romantic thing is in fact rooted in something concrete and quantifiable: our material conditions In a series of short essays, writers consider what happiness means to them now, after the reckoning of the past few years On 30 December last year, Jair Bolsonaro lost to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil’s … Read more