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 recommend some months back was cancelled. Who knows what will happen this time. Personally,... 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 »
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... Read more »
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... Read more »
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 ... Read more »
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... Read more »