TOKYO ART PICKS (NOVEMBER) Colin Liddell October 31, 2025 0 "The Frog in the Well Knows Nothing of the Ocean" (2025) NSDC In numbers of eyeballs on artworks Tokyo is the unchallenged World... Read more »
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. ... Read more »
THE STRANGENESS OF THE NEW JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER Colin Liddell October 26, 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 ... Read more »
IS "ORIENTAL PEARL" A COMMUNIST CHINESE AGENT? Colin Liddell October 23, 2025 0 Anti-Japanese slop maker, Oriental Pearl Recently a YouTube video presented by an anaemic, beaky-nosed blonde called "Oriental Pearl... Read more »
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... Read more »
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 ... Read more »
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... Read more »
TOKYO GIG PICK (NOVEMBER): ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE Colin Liddell October 15, 2025 0 Due to a typhoon, an ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE show we recommended some months back was cancelled. Who knows what will happen this time. Personall... Read more »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
EXHIBITION 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... Read more »