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EYES WIDE...OPEN

December 26, 2023 Add Comment Edit
This short, satirical article was first published in Tokyo YY Vol 4 No 88, Sept 1999 " Shibuya Crosssing" by Marco Santaniello (cl...
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VIDEO: WHAT AMERICA CAN LEARN FROM JAPAN

November 26, 2023 Add Comment Edit
Japan has learned so much from America and is deeply grateful. Now it is time for America to learn something to its advantage from Japan. Th...
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VIDEO: TOKYO GAME SHOW 2017

November 05, 2023 Add Comment Edit
Some clips from the 2017 Tokyo Game Show, held at Makuhari Messe. As usual, a lot of scantily dressed women were attempting to distract visi...
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JAP BAP

October 04, 2023 Add Comment Edit
I'm not really sure why, but the Bronze Age Pervert aesthetic has been winning on the Internet for some time now. This aesthetic is ess...
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ULTRAMAN ART!

August 10, 2023 Add Comment Edit
Alien Baltan After watching Christopher Nolan’s stunning Batman trilogy, it would be fascinating to imagine what that film-maker would do wi...
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TRUMAN CAPOTE VISITS MARLON BRANDO ON THE JAPANESE SET OF "SAYONARA" (1957)

April 03, 2023 1 Comment Edit
Most Japanese girls giggle. The little maid on the fourth floor of the Miyako Hotel, in Kyoto, was no exception. Hilarity, and attempts to s...
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INCELS ATTACK XMAS

March 25, 2023 Add Comment Edit
Unlike in the West, in Japan Christmas is not a cosy time for the family to get together and remember the birth of Jesus. Instead it is a hi...
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LACK OF "ROMANTIC ABILITY" BLAMED FOR JAPAN'S SLIDING MARRIAGE, BIRTH RATES

February 25, 2023 Add Comment Edit
From Mainichi Japan : TSU -- The reason for Japanese people's increasing reluctance to get married is that their "romantic ability...
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THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF "TOKYO REPORTER"

February 22, 2023 Add Comment Edit
Brett Bull of Tokyo Reporter  Between 2008 and 2022 Tokyo Reporter translated the juiciest stories from the Japanese gutter press -- nigh...
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TOHAKU HASEGAWA FINALLY GETS HIS DUE

January 10, 2023 Add Comment Edit
Tigers and bamboo (one screen) The exhibition at the Idemitsu Museum, “New Discovery: The Beauty of Hasegawa Tohaku,” has quite a tale to te...
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