WILL TIMELESZ'S SHUTO DO TIME FOR PARKING LOT PUNCH UP? Colin Liddell September 19, 2026 0 Inomato burnishing his bad boy appeal? Tokyo’s idol assembly line prefers its scandals to stay backstage, preferably with a tearful press co... Read more »
RESTAURANT REVIEW: OYSTER & SHELL, TSUKIJI Colin Liddell September 19, 2026 0 Walking back to central Tokyo from Odaiba, as I sometimes do, one passes through an area of reclaimed land and modern bridges. This may stri... Read more »
TOKYO ART PICKS (SEPTEMBER) Colin Liddell September 03, 2026 0 Hisashi Tenmyouya In numbers of eyeballs on artworks Tokyo is the undisputed art capital of the world, and Autumn is the undisputed art sea... Read more »
"EROS CAPITAL" CATCHING ON IN JAPAN'S STREET-WALKING SCENE Colin Liddell August 31, 2026 0 In the early 2000s, Arab-British sociologist Catherine Hakim proposed the concept of 'eros capital.' The idea is that young women... Read more »
TOKYO GIG PICK : YĪN YĪN (OCTOBER) Colin Liddell August 30, 2026 0 YĪN YĪN's oeuvre is probably exactly the kind of thing almost any 4 European guys hanging out playing funk and psychedelia around the to... Read more »
JAPAN'S SLEEP-DEPRIVED PM MISSES COCKROACH "FRIEND" Colin Liddell August 25, 2026 0 Since becoming PM 10 months ago, Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has been imitating her good friend Donald Trump by taking to soci... Read more »
EXHIBITION REVIEW: ETTORE SOTTSASS AT THE ARTIZON Colin Liddell August 25, 2026 0 Installation views, photos: Yuya Furukawa The Artizon Museum's decision to put on " Ettore Sottsass: Design Begins Where Magic Begi... Read more »
RESTAURANT REVIEW: JINZA, SHIMBASHI Colin Liddell August 21, 2026 0 In my view, the Japanese are a people who focus much more on quality than marketing. They seem to live in the not always naïve hope that wor... Read more »
INTERVIEW: HIROSHI SUGIMOTO ON ART, A.I., & EXTINCTION Colin Liddell August 08, 2026 0 The advent of Artificial Intelligence has put the idea of extinction into quite a few minds recently. For some it is the extinction of the h... Read more »