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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…

As Yuko has been enjoying the Ghost in the Shell TV series, STAND ALONE COMPLEX, a lot lately (it’s shown on Monday nights after MONSTER, and before that after GOKUSEN), we decided to pop in my DVD copy of the movie last night. I hadn’t watched it in years, and was very pleasantly surprised to…

The Image Forum Festival 2004 is being held right now at the Park Tower Hall in Shinjuku and the Yokohama Museum of Art. From REALTOKYO: A festival packed with cutting-edge films that are worth seeing without exception. After the kick-off at Tate Modern, the show has traveled Berlin, Paris, New York, Jonas Mekas’ Anthology Film…