Takashi Murakami is perhaps the most famous contemporary Japanese artist in foreign countries. However, he is not so well loved in Jap...
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BOOK REVIEW: LOVE HOTELS - PHOTOGRAPHS BY MISTY KEASLER
If you want to get a handle on Japanese society, you can always waste your time going to the nearest tourist office and picking up a loa...
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GRAVITATIONAL PULL OF JAPAN SHAPES STAR WARS SAGA
It is 150 years since Commodore Perry pointed the Death Star of technology at the head of this once feudal nation and ushered it int...
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HERE COMES THE TENGU
Maybe it's because of the big nose and the red face — like some grotesque characterization of Europeans — or it might just be the au...
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JAPANESE WESTERN FESTIVALS
Certain Western festivals catch on in Japan and others don’t. What is the secret factor that determines this? I would say it is a str...
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FICTION: SPEEDBUMP
Once upon a time, there was a king who wanted to check up on the public spiritedness of his people so he placed a large rock in the mid...
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PHOTO: THROUGH A JAPANESE TRAIN WINDOW
Click to enlarge. A photo of passengers taken through a train window at Shinjuku station. Notice the pervasivenesss of smart phone u...
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Land of the Rising Crescent: Muslims in Japan & Japanese Muslims
Hitomi Tsukidate and Imam Yenturk Islam in Japan has an interesting history. Like most things in this country, it didn’t just happen ...
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Poster: Elvis Presley as a Noh Play
"Blue Moon Over Memphis" is a Noh play on the theme of Elvis Presley. Of course, such an act of cultural sacrilege was not pe...
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Photo: Takarazuka Poster
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Japonisme: Cultural Crossings between Japan and the West
Japonisme: Cultural Crossings Between Japan and the West by Lionel Lambourne Phaidon $44.07 on Amazon The great English potte...
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HERE BE MONSTERS
(CLICK to enlarge) From ESP labs to Pokemon panics to death cults, Japan is a wonderland of the bizarre. In the old days of d...
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Photo: Have Bonsai Will Travel
This photo shows a mobile bonsai merchant, spotted in the swanky shopping district of Ginza. Everything is packed in the back of motor ...
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The Erotic Art of Susumu Tsutsumi
Japanese manga porn has now entered a late decadent stage characterized by unreal borderline paedophiliac imagery, but in its heyday...
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The Restless City: How Tokyo’s Sleazier Neighborhoods have Successfully Rebranded Themselves
Godzilla visits one of Tokyo's sleazier neighbourhoods. When the shock waves from the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake struck Tok...
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THE BATTLESHIP MIKASA
The Barometer of Japanese History If there’s one object that can exemplify the ups and downs of Japanese history over the la...
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Google Autocomplete: Japanese People
What are Japanese people famous for? Asking up front will only produce polite and evasive answers. If you want the truth you will have t...
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