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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

EXHIBITION REVIEW: SAMIRO YUNOKI (TOKYO OPERA CITY ART GALLERY)

Colin Liddell December 16, 2025 0

Installation view Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery’s retrospective of Samiro Yunoki, who recently passed away at the impressive age of 102, is l...

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

art

"HOKKAIDO" BY DAIDO MORIYAMA

Colin Liddell December 10, 2025 0

Daido Moriyama is a legend of Japanese photography. He is well known for his raw, gritty, and often decentred images. This video of his wo...

Thursday, December 4, 2025

music

SHIBUYA STREET LIVE: RINA (梨奈)

Colin Liddell December 04, 2025 0

In Japan, busking in train stations is very well organised, as we can see in this performance by Rina ( 梨奈 ) on the 18th of October, 2025....

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Omotesando

RESTAURANT REVIEW: YORONIKU (MINAMI-AOYAMA)

Colin Liddell December 03, 2025 0

Photo: WebLeon Look, if you’re in Tokyo and you love beef, Yoroniku is the place you book months in advance and then lie to your friends abo...

Friday, November 28, 2025

slop

DISHY HEADGEAR: WEAR IT, DON'T EAT IT!

Colin Liddell November 28, 2025 0

Hayashi rice A quirky company called Nippon Sample Crafts, which may or may not be based in Tokyo, has decided that the only thing better th...

Monday, November 17, 2025

slop

RIDE THE SEAGULL!

Colin Liddell November 17, 2025 0

Called the "Yuri Kamome Line" (literally the "black-headed gull line"), this is one of Tokyo's most scenic train l...

Friday, November 14, 2025

art

EXHIBITION REVIEW: VIENNESE STYLE

Colin Liddell November 14, 2025 0

The story behind the exhibition now on at the Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art is a strong one, but you may need to sharpen a few histor...

Thursday, November 6, 2025

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HOW JAPANESE SUPERSTITION CRASHED THE BIRTH RATE

Colin Liddell November 06, 2025 0

Mizuko Kuyo: The Japanese Ritual of Mourning The Unborn Make no mistake about it, under present conditions Japan is a doomed country....

Saturday, November 1, 2025

art

EXHIBITION REVIEW: AKI SASAMOTO'S LIFE LABORATORY

Colin Liddell November 01, 2025 0

Still from "Random Memo Random" (2016) Aki Sasamoto’s "Life Laboratory" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) is...

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Shuhei Yoshida

INTERVIEW: SHUHEI YOSHIDA ON THE HISTORY OF PLAYSTATION

Colin Liddell October 29, 2025 0

For 32 years since the launch of the original PlayStation in 1993, Shuhei Yoshida (left) has been working with creators to develop content. ...

Monday, October 27, 2025

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THE STRANGENESS OF THE NEW JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER

Colin Liddell October 27, 2025 0

Japan has a new plan to stop Trump's tariffs The point of knowing things and being smart is not to just know things and be smart, it is ...

Friday, October 24, 2025

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IS "ORIENTAL PEARL" A COMMUNIST CHINESE AGENT?

Colin Liddell October 24, 2025 0

Anti-Japanese slop maker, Oriental Pearl Recently a YouTube video presented by an anaemic, beaky-nosed blonde called "Oriental Pearl...

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