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JUST NOTICED ANOTHER GAIJIN HAS DIED: DOREEN SIMMONDS

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Doreen Simmonds 2010 Fujiland knows everybody in Japan, by which, of course, we mean the country's tiny ex-pat community. We don't k...
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TRUMAN CAPOTE VISITS MARLON BRANDO ON THE JAPANESE SET OF "SAYONARA" (1957)

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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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THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF "TOKYO REPORTER"

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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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JAPAN'S 98th PRIME MINISTER

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A podcast from Oct 2021 by Oscar Boyd and Satoshi Sugiyama discussing Fumio Kishida the 98th Prime Minister of Japan.
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SADIST IN CHARGE OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES MUSIC

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The 2020  2021 Tokyo Olympics has been one disaster after another. Now the latest blow is the revelation that the guy in charge of the music...
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Interview: Yoshio Taniguchi

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Some Westerners, when faced with Oriental creativity, have a tendency to gush a bit. Instead of taking a calm, rational, inquisitive v...
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INTERVIEW: HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

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What Lies Behind Our Love of Clothes There’s something counter-intuitive about photographic artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. While most a...
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Makoto Aida: Sorry For Being a Genius

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For most of his career, Makoto Aida has been the enfant terrible of the Japanese art world. But now this exciting and iconoclastic art...
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Interview: Ryo Sehata, cellotape artist

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Ryo Sehata with his work "Rolling Sculpture 20" Stuck on cellotape Ryo Sehata is that often-mentioned but seldom-enco...
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