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Monday, October 20, 2025

TAKAICHI BECOMES JAPAN'S FIRST FEMALE P.M. WITH FRAGILE COALITION

Colin Liddell October 20, 2025 0

Finally Japan is to get its first female PM, after newly-elected LDP leader Sanae Takaichi inked a deal with Nippon Isshin no Kai (the Japan...

Sunday, October 19, 2025

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ART REVIEW: KOJIN TONEYAMA AT SETAGAYA ART MUSEUM

Colin Liddell October 19, 2025 0

Exhibition poster showing "Praying for Rain" (1987), one of Kojin Toneyama's Mayan-influenced paintings "Nature and the ...

Thursday, October 16, 2025

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AS POLITICAL DEADLOCK CONTINUES PM ISHIBA IS HAVING A BALL

Colin Liddell October 16, 2025 0

PMs just wanna have fun Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is in an odd position. Since resigning as LDP leader, he has been out of powe...

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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TOKYO GIG PICK (NOVEMBER): ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE

Colin Liddell October 15, 2025 0

Due to a typhoon, an ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE show we recommend some months back was cancelled. Who knows what will happen this time. Personally,...

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

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TOKYO GIG PICK (JANUARY): VIAGRA BOYS

Colin Liddell October 14, 2025 0

Variously described, VIAGRA BOYS sound mainly like dance punk/ surf music to me. They also sound the way you'd expect a "punky...

Saturday, October 11, 2025

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TAKAICHI'S BID FOR LEADERSHIP IN TATTERS AS OPPOSITION PARTIES GANG UP

Colin Liddell October 11, 2025 0

And just like that, this guy could be Japan's next PM ! Just days after being unexpectedly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democrat...

Friday, October 10, 2025

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ART REVIEW: MAURICE UTRILLO AT THE SOMPO

Colin Liddell October 10, 2025 0

Rue Marcadet (1909) Nagoya City Art Museum Paris is very much a city of the mind. In addition to it being a real place of some importance, i...

Thursday, October 9, 2025

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RESTAURANT REVIEW: AKASAKA GOHAN YAMANEYA

Colin Liddell October 09, 2025 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...

Sunday, October 5, 2025

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WHY JAPAN IS REFUSING TO COOL DOWN EVEN IN OCTOBER

Colin Liddell October 05, 2025 0

The reason Japan still feels like midsummer is because of a large ocean anomaly that is also driving record temperatures across the Pacific ...

Friday, October 3, 2025

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TAKAICHI DEFEATS KOIZUMI TO POSSIBLY BECOME JAPAN'S FIRST FEMALE PRIME MINISTER

Colin Liddell October 03, 2025 0

"Bedroom eyes" vs "beady and malevolent dots" Wounded by a bruising spamming scandal , Shinjiro Koizumi has failed in h...

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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TOKYO ART PICKS (OCTOBER)

Colin Liddell September 30, 2025 0

Vampire by Hanamisaki Monoko . In numbers of eyeballs on artworks Tokyo is the unchallenged World capital of art. Some say this is becaus...

Monday, September 29, 2025

slop

JAPAN IS A MICRO-NAPPING SUPERPOWER

Colin Liddell September 29, 2025 0

One of the big advantages of Japan being a "safety country" is that you can take a nap almost anywhere, and be reasonably sure tha...

Saturday, September 27, 2025

TGS

TOKYO GAME SHOW LOVELIES 2025

Colin Liddell September 27, 2025 0

It wouldn't be Tokyo Game Show without a bevy of young lovelies dressing up in LARPy costumes and pointing samurai swords at you. Here, ...

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