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Month: June 2004

  • Morning Exercise

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    Employees of supermarket chain Ito Yokado Group do their morning exercises at the company’s Tokyo head office. (Japan Today)

  • From Ringo to Tokyo Jihen

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    Seems like Shiina Ringo is giving the solo career a break, and joining a band.

  • Yokohama French Film Festival 2004

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    It’s that time of the year again, when the Yokohama French Film Festival comes into town. If you are a fan of French movies, the Yokohama French Film Festival, an annual event to be held June 16-20 this year, is a must-see. A delegation of as many as 50 French actors and filmmakers, headed by…

  • Danish Posters

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    I’ll be checking out the following tomorrow, at the Ginza Graphic Gallery. In June 2004 Ginza Graphic Gallery will hold an exhibition entitled Danish Posters – Over the past 10 years. Enormous changes have taken place in Europe during the past decade, a period encompassing the end of the twentieth century. The present exhibition looks…

  • Hige Cho

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    We finish up our week of pics from Roppongi Hills with this shot of the Hige Cho Taiwanese bento shop. According to Yuko, it’s the only memorable thing at Roppongi Hills (well, that and Village Vanguard).

  • Patrick's Agenda

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    Patrick has just launched a new section of his site he calls Agenda. In it, he plans on keeping us informed of “upcoming music releases, club or live shows, movies, and other types of events that interest [him] in Tokyo.” There’s already info on the upcoming Nomoto Karia and Nomiya Maki album releases (respectively, KAARII…

  • Readymade Weekend

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    New fun t-shirt from Readymade International. Link via Patrick. Update (16/08/21): The image is unfortunately no longer available. I’m sure it was a pretty fun t-shirt though.

  • Radio.blog

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    Radio.blog (found through Warren Ellis) is something that looks very intriguing. Let’s you stream music files (makes them smaller sized than regular MP3s) from your site, sort of like having your own private radio station. It it weren’t for the high traffic this site gets, I would love to use it in order to share…

  • Uniqlo Yukata

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    Seems like casual clothing retailer UNIQLO is getting into the matsuri mood with new offerings of very affordable yukata for men and women. Not bad looking. Yuko’s saying we should get some for the matsuri season.

  • Totem Pole

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    A totem pole inside a children’s park in the Roppongi Hills area.