Category: General

This weekend’s edition of THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE/ASAHI newspaper has an article on comedian/bassist Hanawa. Of the three big comedy acts of last year (along with Tetsu & Tomo, and Dandy Sakano), Hanawa is the only one that we still see regularly on TV. Dandy Sakano was only famous for his “gets” catch phrase, and…

It’s funny/strange how certain posts have been kept alive for months and months with new comments being posted on a semi-regular basis. Take this post on Happatai for instance, which was posted over a year ago, and still gets comments posted to it every few weeks or so. One of the most volatile (and on…

A short article on Yoshida & Co., maker of the Porter brand, from THE DAILY YOMIURI. Yoshida bags are my weak spot, I love them so.

Found this at the MDN site: As part of EU-Japan Friendship Week, 19 films from the EU accession states will be shown under the title of “EU Film Days” from May 19 to May 29 at three locations in Tokyo. The venues will be Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo from May 11 to 17 and on…

The Hentai Dictionary guides you through all Japanese perversions, fetishes, and AV terms. Never get caught off guard again not knowing your chin chin kenkyu from your yogoreta shitagi.

New exhibition at NADiff gives me a good excuse to go to Aoyama (it’s been a while). APPU APPU sees a collaboration between novelist Fujunaga Shin and painter Murase Kyoko. The fine folks at REALTOKYO have this to say: Kyoto resident novelist Fukunaga Shin, and painter Murase Kyoko, who presently lives and works in Dusseldorf,…

101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions – just click here and enjoy. I really want to get a hold of this book. If somebody understands how to get it please contact me. Edit: Added the book image. Update (16/08/21): This post was part of a “Next Century Modern Blog” stint, by guest blogger Jesper Larsson.

Lying midway between Shibuya and Daikanyama stations, Jam Jam Drag on the Market, or JD2 as it’s referred to in its logo, offers two distinct spaces for two very different kinds of Shibuyaites. On the first floor, action figures line one side of the entranceway, plush couches are nestled against a DJ booth, and dim…

I might have mentioned this site in the past, but not sure if I did (doesn’t show up in searches), and it’s something I want to have posted here (this site also acts as my personal notebook, of things I want to know and have filed about the city). The Tokyo Cafe Mania page is…

Another album I’ve been enjoying these past few days is a new compilation of remixes of the classic (I guess they’ve been together for 25 years, but I’d never heard of them) Japanese rock’n’roll band Sheena & the Rokkets. It’s called ELECTROKKETS, and as the title suggests, the tracks are all electronic mixes of their…