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Category: City Life

  • Japan Media Arts Festival

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    Been wanting to mention this here for a while now, and I’m finally reminded of it by this REALTOKYO entry: The festival is held for the eighth time this year, and as an art fan I’m again most interested in the Art division. The Grand Prize this year goes to France-based Electronic Shadow, who create…

  • Cold Elephants

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    Even these little Sato elephants standing in front of a Heiwado pharmacy are cold.

  • Record Shopping in Japan

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    A guide to record shopping in Japan. Link via Gridskipper.

  • KDDI Designing Studio

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    KDDI (the company behind mobile phone provider AU) will be launching the KDDI Designing Studio in Harajuku on March 4, and this will be accompanied by Gas sponsored special events featuring the design collection Tomato. “YOU-ME-WHO?” installation, which will start March 4 (until March 28) A talk session with members of Tomato, on March 6…

  • Conceal Cafe

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    I was out in Aoyama (met with Lil for lunch at the Dragonfly Cafe), Harajuku, and Shibuya today, and ended up at Conceal Cafe. I’ll probably be going regularly now when I’m in the area — that’s after I’m done with my “Shibuya Cafe Tour.”

  • Dragonfly Cafe

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    The Dragonfly Cafe in Marunouchi, across the street from the Marunouchi Building. The inside is actually very boring, and I changed my mind about going. I do like the one in Aoyama though.

  • Evolution Cafe

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    The media event “Evolution Cafe” sounds like a nice one, but I’m turned off by the fact that it’s all the way out in Yokohama. Artist and Designers specialized in the IT field will demonstrate their ideas. This year their works will be evaluated. Come and see the possibilities in the life styles in the…

  • Maruzen

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    The Maruzen bookstore, inside the Oazo complex (near Tokyo station). If you’re in the area, have a look at the 4th floor foreign book section.

  • How to Make a Magazine?

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    The OK Fredders will be giving a talk in Osaka, at the Apple Store Shinsaibashi, on February 24 at 7. I imagine it’ll include a preview of the upcoming issue, which should come out in a matter of weeks now.

  • The Hunt for Japanese Innovators

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    Magazine journalist Douglas McGray needs your help: I’m helping a big US-Japan institute out with some legwork on a project, which aims to identify next generation innovators in Japanese culture. They’re going to be defining culture in an appealingly broad way — contemporary artists and designers, chefs, filmmakers, authors, architects, anime directors, manga artists, philosophers,…