TOKYO GIG PICKS (MAY) Colin Liddell April 30, 2025 0 Raw Power Never knowingly bettered, our Tokyo Gig Guide is characterised by its incredibly wide range of taste (no narrow comfort zone here,... Read more »
SHOCKING MURDER OF SCHOOLGIRL IN SAITAMA Colin Liddell April 25, 2025 0 A shocking murder has occurred in Saitama. The gruesome incident occurred on the night of April 14th, when the suspect, Hiroyuki Taniuchi ... Read more »
RESTAURANT REVIEW: JIN DIN ROU, URAWA Colin Liddell April 23, 2025 0 During a recent social meet-up in Urawa, my associate and I decided on the popular Chinese dumpling eatery Jun Din Rou. The chain started i... Read more »
ONLY IN JAPAN: RENT A RETIREE! Colin Liddell April 21, 2025 1 Ojisan is the Japanese word for old and middle-aged men, but here in Japan you can also personally rent them as crusty and wrinkled companio... Read more »
THE SEVEN PASSIONS OF FOUJITA: THE LATEST LOOK AT AN ART ICON Colin Liddell April 20, 2025 0 © Fondation Foujita / ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2024 E5785 The big exhibition at the Sompo Museum of Art, located in Shinjuku's ... Read more »
INTERVIEW: KOICHI MATSUMOTO, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF TENGA Colin Liddell April 19, 2025 0 "Yes we can!" TENGA is the global brand name for devices used in "personal sexual relief" (aka jacking off). Koichi Mat... Read more »
FOREIGNERS "SUSPECTED" IN KAMAKURA VENDING MACHINE HEIST Colin Liddell April 16, 2025 0 Foreigners are under suspicion again after a number of vending machines were wrecked at the Kamakura Seaside Park in Yuigahama, Kamakura Cit... Read more »
MACHINE LOVE: GRAPPLING WITH THE DEMON (OR ANGEL) OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Colin Liddell April 16, 2025 0 Lu Yang: DOKU the Self (2022) photo of installation I'm not going to pretend that I know where any of this A.I. stuff is going, but a gr... Read more »
THE A-Z OF SEX IN JAPAN Colin Liddell April 15, 2025 0 It's a good thing we're not using the Japanese alphabet or we'd be here all year. Just the humble Western A-Z to bring you a ran... Read more »
INOSUKE HAZAMA: COLOURING JAPAN'S CONNECTION TO THE WEST Colin Liddell April 12, 2025 0 HAZAMA Inosuke, Recollection of Kugenuma, 1937, Hazama Inosuke Museum One of the two shows now on at the Artizon Museum focuses on the life... Read more »