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From Trends in Japan: The bestselling novel Deep Love was self-published in installments by the author on a website that offers content packaged for users of mobile phones. The story is about a 17-year-old girl named Ayu, who finds love through a chance encounter. The author, who calls himself Yoshi, created a website providing content…

Spring is in the air, and I thought I’d play with the color scheme a bit to reflect that. Paul, no worries, I didn’t even consider going pink this year. If you don’t see the links and icons in green, just hit your refresh button.

I mentioned seeing it in bookstores the other day, and last night I picked it up at Junkudo on my way back from work. It’s of course the latest CASA BRUTUS special, the second one covering Muji. It’s theme? “Muji Gorgeous!!” It’s all quite similar to what the previous special did, which is covering latest…

Big new update at the Midnight Eye site. And speaking of updates, the new issue (88) of Japanese online design magazine SHIFT is up.

I don’t know if it’s available in all Starbucks shops, but I just got back from work and met up with Yuko at the Starbucks near our place (next to the Junkudo bookstore) where she was studying, and I checked for free wireless Internet, and I’m now connected. I’d heard that you had to subscribe…

We start another Saturday morning at Kamiyacho, paying visit to the Tokyo Medical and Surgical Clinic (without going into details, things are better now, and this will hopefully be the last visit for a long time). Instead of staying in the area like previous weeks, we hop on the the subway to backtrack two stations…

These days I’m getting more and more interested in art happenings from China, be it design or architecture, so this exhibit taking place at Gallery MA that looks at the architectural works of Seung H-Sang from Korea and Yung Ho Chang from China might be worth a visit. Here’s the RT blurb: “A showcase of…

Damn. I was all excited about seeing the new Ghost in the Shell film, INNOCENCE, this week as it was supposed to play at the Roppongi Hills Virgin Cinemas with English subtitles, and while checking the site for times I found the following: We discontinue the show of “INNOCENCE” with English subtitle for imperfect subtitle.…