ONLY IN JAPAN: YAMIBAITO - "DARK PART-TIME JOBS"
Colin Liddell
December 03, 2024
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The new crime trend in Japan is "yamibaito" (literally “dark part-time jobs”). What happens is an anonymous employer advertises on...
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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
ART REVIEW: KEIICHI TANAAMI: ADVENTURES IN MEMORY
Colin Liddell
November 05, 2024
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It is hard to think of a more tragic story than the one surrounding this exhibition. A visit to "Keiichi Tanaami: Adventures in Memory...
Saturday, October 12, 2024
INTERVIEW: TADASHI YANAI ON "THE SMART GLOBALISATION OF JAPAN"
Colin Liddell
October 12, 2024
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Japan is gonna headhunt you with manga, anime, and mellow fashion Tadashi Yanai is the guy behind Uniqlo, the low-key fashion phenomenon tha...
Monday, September 30, 2024
OH, F@&K, THEY CHANGED THE PRIME MINISTER AGAIN
Colin Liddell
September 30, 2024
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New PM Shigeru Ishiba: Don't expect instant results Just when I had got used to the previous Prime Minister (enough to allow him to dr...
Saturday, September 28, 2024
TOKYO GAME SHOW LOVELIES 2024
Colin Liddell
September 28, 2024
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It wouldn't be Tokyo Game Show without a bevy of young lovelies dressing up in LARPy costumes to sell the latest and greatest game title...
Monday, September 23, 2024
TOKYO ART PICKS (OCTOBER)
Colin Liddell
September 23, 2024
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"Good-by Marilyn" (video, 1971) Keiichi Tanaami Tokyo is the art capital of the World in terms of the number of actual eyeballs o...
Monday, September 16, 2024
THE SECRET ORIGINS OF BOWING
Colin Liddell
September 16, 2024
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Most people going to Ueno Zoo want to see the pandas first. I can’t blame them, but for me the first stop is always the chimps. Not only are...
Friday, September 6, 2024
TOKYO GIG PICKS (SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER)
Colin Liddell
September 06, 2024
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Helsinki Lambada Club After the big festivals - Fuji and Sonic - suck all the oxygen out of the gig scene in the summer, things kind of re...
Thursday, September 5, 2024
WORST JAPANESE SUMMER EVER (AGAIN)!
Colin Liddell
September 05, 2024
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The results are in! Japan has suffered it's worst summer ever. Again. Yes, 2024, it seems was just as hot as last summer, which was way ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
ART INTERVIEW: KONOMI TANI
Colin Liddell
August 21, 2024
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Konomi Tani is an Osaka-born who has recently been enjoying some success. Her painting was accepted for the 207th Choice Prize and exhibited...
Monday, August 19, 2024
SEMI-CONDUCTORS: IS JAPAN THE NEXT TAIWAN?
Colin Liddell
August 19, 2024
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The main geopolitical problem facing the world in the next 10 years is the possibility of a war over Chinese sovereignty of Taiwan. China ...
Sunday, August 18, 2024
JESUS'S GRAVE IN JAPAN
Colin Liddell
August 18, 2024
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In the town of Shingo in Aomori, the local legend is that the town is the final resting place of the real Jesus Christ. Here the local wo...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
HOW NOT TO MAKE A TIT OF YOURSELF
Colin Liddell
May 28, 2024
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This woman is a type 4 Breasts are not just things for men to lick, suck, and ogle and for babies to extract milk from. Here in the Orient, ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST NON-JAPANESE GROUP IN EACH PREFECTURE?
Colin Liddell
May 14, 2024
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Japan has a growing population of people of foreign origin. But the foreign population is not the same everywhere. In Osaka and the surround...
Thursday, April 18, 2024
JAPAN MOVES TOWARDS AN EARTHQUAKE-PROOF FUTURE
Colin Liddell
April 18, 2024
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Japan is the safest country in the World, except that it's near North Korea, "Typhoon Alley," and the fault line of some very ...
Thursday, April 4, 2024
ALL JAPANESE WILL BE NAMED "SATO" BY 2531
Colin Liddell
April 04, 2024
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A Japanese Professor has claimed that all Japanese people will have the same family name by the year 2531. This is because more common famil...
