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All You Need Is LOVE…and the price of admission 5 Jul 2013 | 08:12 am
In celebration of its 10th year bringing fantastic art to the nocturnal dwellers of Tokyo, the Mori Art Museum is hosting All You Need Is LOVE: From Chagall to Kusama to Hatsune Miku, until Sunday, S...
Book Review: Tokyo Underworld–a classic on the dark side of Japan 20 Jun 2013 | 07:04 pm
There are very few gaijin (foreigners) who know what happens on the dark side of the rising sun like Robert Whiting. Whiting is an American author and journalist living in Japan, one of the rare ones ...
Omedeto! You’re a cookie, a camera, a cell phone cover! 19 Jun 2013 | 08:24 pm
In Japan customized services are booming and many companies are now offering online tools that allow you to design your own one-of-a-kind personalized product. Customers can add stickers, words, an...
Japanese rockers sing the truth about post-meltdown Fukushima. Is anyone listening? 8 Jun 2013 | 05:32 pm
“We’re living in a material world. A radioactive material world, ” jokes the lead singer. “This isn’t the future we hoped for.” Two years have passed since the triple meltdown in Fukushima Prefect...
Viva la Révolucion? The Japanese Communist Party: Still Red And Not Dead 7 Jun 2013 | 04:07 pm
(Tokyo) – By Douglas Miller* Communism as an ideology would appear to be fading out of our world. Most of the Cold War revolutionaries have died off, and China, Vietnam, and even Burma are becoming m...
ABEGNOMICS: The Most Magical And Mysterious Economic Policy In The World! 7 Jun 2013 | 03:10 pm
Japan is populated by magical creatures. There are the leprechauns that stole millions from Olympus, Lehman Brothers Japan–then a billion dollars from AIJ and MRI and then vanished. There are also the...
The Polaris Project Japan Responds to Mayor Hashimoto: “You’re clueless” 31 May 2013 | 03:16 pm
The Polaris Project Japan is an organization dedicated to combatting human trafficking and child pornography in Japan, who Jake has worked with for almost seven years. Recently, Japan’s controversial...
Doglegs disabled pro-wrestling: The fight club that wants you to stare 23 May 2013 | 03:12 am
They’re uncomfortable sights, even for seasoned ringside aficionados: A deaf man and his opponent–paralysed from the waist down–bound at both hands and feet, reduced to head butting. Two men, normally...
The Incomplete Transsexual—a photo essay from Sanya 12 May 2013 | 04:09 pm
Tokyo, by Dan Ryan All photos by Dan Ryan It was a little like the scenario in that Kinks song “Lola”, but only in passing. I met her in a little place called Seoul Bar, which is in a rundown sectio...
Combatting human trafficking: 1st Winner of Michiel Brandt Memorial Prize Announced 5 May 2013 | 04:34 pm
Elena Kokhanovski, a first year MPA student, has been awarded the $1500 cash prize to support her internship in the anti-human trafficking field. Elena is undertaking academic and non-academic activit...
