セーラー服って何なの? Colin Liddell September 26, 2026 0 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... Read more »
OASIS IN THE DESERT: THE KAWAGUCHI MUSEUM OF ART Colin Liddell September 26, 2026 0 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 ... Read more »
WILL TIMELESZ'S SHUTO DO TIME FOR PARKING LOT PUNCH UP? Colin Liddell September 20, 2026 0 Inomata burnishing his bad boy appeal? Tokyo’s idol assembly line prefers its scandals to stay backstage, preferably with a tearful press co... 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 »
"EROS CAPITAL" CATCHING ON IN JAPAN'S STREET-WALKING SCENE Colin Liddell September 01, 2026 0 In the early 2000s, Arab-British sociologist Catherine Hakim proposed the concept of 'eros capital.' The idea is that young women... Read more »
JAPAN'S SLEEP-DEPRIVED PM MISSES COCKROACH "FRIEND" Colin Liddell August 26, 2026 0 Since becoming PM 10 months ago, Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has been imitating her good friend Donald Trump by taking to soci... Read more »
EXHIBITION REVIEW: ETTORE SOTTSASS AT THE ARTIZON Colin Liddell August 25, 2026 0 Installation views, photos: Yuya Furukawa The Artizon Museum's decision to put on " Ettore Sottsass: Design Begins Where Magic Begi... Read more »
RESTAURANT REVIEW: JINZA, SHIMBASHI Colin Liddell August 21, 2026 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 »
INTERVIEW: HIROSHI SUGIMOTO ON ART, A.I., & EXTINCTION Colin Liddell August 09, 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 »
"RAPE MY EX": YAMI-BAITO TURNS UGLY Colin Liddell August 01, 2026 0 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... Read more »
JAPAN SWEATS AND BLEATS IN RECORD-BREAKING HEAT Colin Liddell July 27, 2026 0 Japan’s weather agency has given extreme Summer heat its own official badge of honour this summer, coining the term kokushobi ( 酷暑日 ), or ... Read more »
DEATH OF A LIVE-STREAMER: REVENGE OF THE PARASOCIAL PAY PIG Colin Liddell July 14, 2026 0 Prosecutors have requested a 20-year prison sentence for Kenichi Takano, a 44-year-old man accused of f atally stabbing a 22-year-old live-s... Read more »