BEER WAR HEATS UP AS TAXMAN COMES FOR THE CHEAP CAN
Colin Liddell
September 30, 2026
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October 1 arrives and Japan's long-running tax dodge finally ends. For years the liquor tax treated "beer," " happoshu ,...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Saturday, September 26, 2026
セーラー服って何なの？
Colin Liddell
September 26, 2026
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セーラー服はかわいい。セーラー服はセクシーだ。そして、少しペドっぽい。でも、どうやって大きな毛深い水兵たちの制服から、日本の女子高生に大いにフェティッシュ化された服装になったのだろうか？ セーラー服のキーポイント は、うしろについた独特な襟である。 アート by 会田誠 これに...
TOKYO GIG PICK: BRAINBOMBS (OCTOBER)
Colin Liddell
September 26, 2026
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Brainbombs have been doing this since 1985, which is longer than most of the people who will pack Earthdom have been alive. The Swedes take ...
OASIS IN THE DESERT: THE KAWAGUCHI MUSEUM OF ART
Colin Liddell
September 26, 2026
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Atrium, Photo: Shigeo Ogawa For many years, the vast urban area North of Ueno and Ikebukuro and south of Saitama City has been something of ...
Sunday, September 20, 2026
WILL TIMELESZ'S SHUTO DO TIME FOR PARKING LOT PUNCH UP?
Colin Liddell
September 20, 2026
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Inomata burnishing his bad boy appeal? Tokyo’s idol assembly line prefers its scandals to stay backstage, preferably with a tearful press co...
Saturday, September 19, 2026
RESTAURANT REVIEW: OYSTER & SHELL, TSUKIJI
Colin Liddell
September 19, 2026
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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...
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
"EROS CAPITAL" CATCHING ON IN JAPAN'S STREET-WALKING SCENE
Colin Liddell
September 01, 2026
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In the early 2000s, Arab-British sociologist Catherine Hakim proposed the concept of 'eros capital.' The idea is that young women...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
JAPAN'S SLEEP-DEPRIVED PM MISSES COCKROACH "FRIEND"
Colin Liddell
August 26, 2026
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Since becoming PM 10 months ago, Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has been imitating her good friend Donald Trump by taking to soci...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
EXHIBITION REVIEW: ETTORE SOTTSASS AT THE ARTIZON
Colin Liddell
August 25, 2026
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Installation views, photos: Yuya Furukawa The Artizon Museum's decision to put on " Ettore Sottsass: Design Begins Where Magic Begi...
Friday, August 21, 2026
RESTAURANT REVIEW: JINZA, SHIMBASHI
Colin Liddell
August 21, 2026
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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...
Sunday, August 9, 2026
INTERVIEW: HIROSHI SUGIMOTO ON ART, A.I., & EXTINCTION
Colin Liddell
August 09, 2026
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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...
Saturday, August 1, 2026
"RAPE MY EX": YAMI-BAITO TURNS UGLY
Colin Liddell
August 01, 2026
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12 years for the 100 kg Hitman In the latest chapter of Japan’s thriving yami-baito “dark part-time job” industry, the Tokyo District Cour...
