TOKYO ART PICKS (OCTOBER) Colin Liddell October 02, 2026 0 FREE TICKETS (SEE BELOW) Cyber Gothic © Ayami Nishimura, Rankin October is a trying time for the art world as the optic oxygen of the city i... Read more »
BEER WAR HEATS UP AS TAXMAN COMES FOR THE CHEAP CAN Colin Liddell September 30, 2026 0 October 1 arrives and Japan's long-running tax dodge finally ends. For years the liquor tax treated "beer," " happoshu ,... Read more »
RESTAURANT REVIEW: OYSTER & SHELL, TSUKIJI Colin Liddell September 19, 2026 0 Walking back to central Tokyo from Odaiba, as I sometimes do, one passes through an area of reclaimed land and modern bridges. This may stri... Read more »
INTERVIEW: HIROSHI SUGIMOTO ON ART, A.I., & EXTINCTION Colin Liddell August 08, 2026 0 The advent of Artificial Intelligence has put the idea of extinction into quite a few minds recently. For some it is the extinction of the h... Read more »
BOOK REVIEW: JAPANESE THINGS Colin Liddell June 16, 2026 0 Before the internet era, the picture of Japan that was fed to the world came through books written by an elite class of highly educated peop... Read more »
JAPAN HAS AN ORGAN DONATION PROBLEM: AN INTERVIEW WITH CAMPAIGNER YOSHIKO KOBATA Colin Liddell May 26, 2026 0 Kobota at Deathfes An ageing society like Japan faces many challenges, ranging from health care to dealing with senility and loneliness. But... Read more »
MUSEUM VISIT: SORAYAMA AT THE CREATIVE MUSEUM Colin Liddell April 15, 2026 0 One of the best exhibitions this year is undoubtedly SORAYAMA: LIGHT, REFLECTION, TRANSPARENCY - TOKYO - at the Creative Museum in the recen... Read more »