25 things to do this weekend

Friday

To See As Artists See
The National Art Center, Tokyo unveiled its exhibition of works from the Phillips Collection on Wednesday, but you can beat the crowds by heading this evening, when the gallery stays open until 8pm. Read more

J. Period
The self-styled 'mixtape assassin' who made Bob Dylan hip hop is blazing through town on a short Japan tour, to rub shoulders with local hip hop luminaries Muro, DJ Jin and DJ Sarasa at Air in Daikanyama. Read more

23rd Hokkaido Fair in Yoyogi
Forget the ski slopes and UNESCO world heritage sites: Hokkaido's all about the food, innit? Over 80 booths flaunt a selection of mouth-watering produce from the northern isle, including abundant seafood. Read more

Smalltown Supersound Japan Tour
Once a haven for serious, chin-strokey Scandinavian post-jazz, Norway's Smalltown Supersound label has started to have fun over the past few years. Mungolian Jetset and Todd Terje star at this all-nighter. Read more

Onra
After raiding vintage Vietnamese pop on 2007's overlooked Chinoiseries, Onra went all Miami Vice on last year's wooze-funk outing Long Distance. He appears alongside Yokohama G-funk revivalists Luvraw & BTB. Read more

Gan-Ban Night Special
Who said they don't make dance music the way they used to? Toronto's Azari & III churn out floor-fillers that sound like they could've been released in the late-'80s and early-'90s heyday of rave and Chicago house. Read more

The Bluetones
The flipside of the current spate of band reunions is the farewell tour, when groups who've toiled on for far too long induce a final gasp of adoration by falling on their swords. So it is with these Britpop survivors. Read more

Alva Noto & Blixa Bargeld
Like a buddy cop movie for readers of The Wire magazine, this dream (nightmare?) pairing pitches sound artist Carsten Nicolai against larynx-wrangling Einstürzende Neubaten frontman Blixa Bargeld. Read more

Tokyo Eye and Ear Control
Guys: you had us at the name. Hands-on VJ team Onnacodomo, multi-instrumentalist Wataru Kousaka, DVD turntablist Yudayajazz and volatile guitar improviser Kazuo Imai supply some audio-visual mutations. Read more

Kazuki Tomokawa
It's folk, yes, but if you want delicate strumming and finger-picking you should take your business elsewhere. Veteran howler Kazuki Tomokawa unleashes some raw poetry in the intimate confines of Bushbash. Read more