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  • Guide to Yanaka

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    My buddy Said Karlsson has written quite a few guides for Navitime’s JapanTravel site, and his latest contribution is for the lovely Yanaka neighborhood of Tokyo. The best thing about these posts is that they all feature great photography by Said. I also like this post that offers up a selection of kissaten (old style coffeeshops).

  • Construction: A Short Story

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    When he’s not writing definitive guides to fashion in Japan, W. David Marx likes to write funny stuff, and here’s a fun little story he just wrote for Racked, called “Construction: A Short Story.”

  • Momentary

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    Ilya Kuvshinov is a Russian illustrator and comic artist based in Tokyo, and he’s just announced that Pie Books will be releasing an art book of his work, entitled Momentary (out on November 30). In the meantime, take some time to go through his beautiful illustrations, or support him through his Patreon.

  • Tokyo Romp

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    My friend photographer Genevieve Daniell is heading back to Tokyo for a few weeks — she used to be based there, and we met through my PauseTalk events — and she’ll be doing shoots while she’s there. She’s fantastic at what she does, and so book her while you can.

  • Spectral Pot

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    The ceramic tea bowl pictured is by Shohei Fujita, and is part of his “Pots on the Wall” exhibition, taking place at Shibuya Hikarie 8 (October 12 to November 3). I share it because, as a Bond fanatic, to me it looks like it was created for SPECTRE.

  • Motocross Saito

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    I really love the animated pixel art of Motocross Saito, like the scene pictured (view the animated GIF). There’s more to see here.

  • Being Tokyo

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    Being Tokyo (@beingtokyo) is a #rocur (“rotation curation”) Twitter account that sees a different person based in Tokyo take over each week to share their personal take on the city, and this week it’s my buddy Gueorgui who has taken control, until October 4.

  • Ken Niimura’s Love Letter

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    As I just mentioned in my post about card games, the only games I kept and brought back from Tokyo where my two editions of the excellent Love Letter game (which I’m very happy to say that my wife quite enjoys as well). I have the basic Tempest edition from AEG, but also the beautifully…

  • October 2016 Calendar from Nintendo

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    I’ve mentioned before how much I enjoy the monthly iPhone wallpaper calendars that Nintendo shares through its Japanese account on Line, and so I figured I’d share the new one for this month. Very Halloween-y.

  • The History of Japanese Beauty

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    “The History of Japanese Beauty” is a stylishly produced video created by students from Nara University that highlights the beauty of Japanese fashion through the ages, from the Jomon period to now. They also produced this “making of” video.