Month: February 2004

Boing Boing has a post up about a feature on Nakano Broadway at the Tokyo Q site. It’s basically an otaku heaven. I’ve been there a few times, and ended up picking up a few things. Patrick was here last night for a sukiyaki dinner at my place, and he had brought some meat from…

I’ve recently become aware of WINKsite, a service that lets you create sites for mobile phones, moblog, and lots of other things. I’ve been wanting to create a version of this site that would be accessible on mobile phones for a while now, and this seems like a quick and easy way to do it.…

From THE JAPAN TIMES: Visitors wander through “Kusamatrix” by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama during a media preview in Tokyo on Friday. This is the new exhibition at Roppongi Hill’s Mori Art Museum.

The latest RES Alert newsletter included info on the following two events happening in the Tokyo area, one of them this weekend. SHOTS IN TOKYO Ex’Realm Cafe & Gallery Harajuku Jingumae 1-12-6, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001 February 7-8th, 2004 (Sat-Sun), 13.00- 21.00 In advance of a Japan feature in the upcoming Spring issue of the UK-based…

If you buy a special edition DEAD OR ALIVE Xbox next month, you’ll get “an extra-special bonus — a dakimakura, or “hugging pillow,” that features a life-size, front-and-back print of teenage character Kasumi in a skimpy bikini.” Read the Wired News article to find out more about the Xbox’s target audience in Japan.

Yuko just read the news that Urasawa Noaki’s terrific manga thriller MONSTER is going to be made into an animated TV series this April. Urawasa will be working on the adaptation, and it will be written for the screen by the guy who wrote Hayao Miyazaki’s SEN TO CHIHIRO NO KAMIKAKUSHI (SPIRITED AWAY). The budget…

I want this. There’s a white one also. I’m really getting into Porter bags lately. Too bad they’re so expensive.

Coin Coin is a “life entertainment magazine from Paris and Tokyo.” Link via Click Opera.