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Month: March 2005

  • Gridskipper Week

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    I’ve started by weeklong stay at Gridskipper, so don’t forget to drop by. It will probably end up being Tokyo heavy.

  • Office Meguro Closed

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    I was at Claska last Friday to see the “Catholic” show — very enjoyable, and loved the vibrating cat — and thought I’d stop by Office in Meguro, since I’m never in that area. I first went up to the desk person at the hotel to find out when it opened, and she looked at…

  • Groovisual Update

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    After a 3-month absence, Toe is blogging again at Groovisual Diary. We missed you!

  • Bye Bye Bape Cafe

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    Another sign that Bape is nowhere near where it was a couple of years ago: I stopped by the Bape Cafe in Aoyama earlier today only to see that it had closed down, with a tiny sign on the window explaining that this had happened for “certain reasons.” Yeah, certain reasons. Love the brand or…

  • New at Miru-Kenchiku

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    Miru-Kenchiku has 3 new galleries covering some of the big-name fashion brand boutiques in Ginza: Dior, Lanvin, and Louis Vuitton. Link via Dezain.net.

  • The Actroid

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    From Japan Today: An “actroid” robot receptionist greets visitors at the Aichi Expo. Developed by Kokoro Corp and Advanced Media Inc, the actroid can give directions in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean. “Actroid” sounds like some sort of disease.

  • Looking Down

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    Ryuichi Sakamoto looks down on the masses. Shot taken in Harajuku.

  • Tokyo International Anime Fair

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    Next weekend (April 2-3) sees the big Tokyo International Anime Fair at Tokyo Big Sight. The biggest animation trade show in Japan attracts over 50,000 visitors in two days to see the latest anime features and TV shows, games and characters goods. 130 Japanese production companies and TV broadcasters, as well as about 30 international…

  • Shinako Sato

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    Barbie, like you’ve never seen her before. Photographer Shinako Sato reportedly worked for five years as a makeup artist for a mortician, daubing the dead with lipstick. Perhaps that explains her fascination with elaborately staged and dressed dioramas of stiff figures (thankfully, dolls not real dead people). Sato works with Barbie dolls and plastic figures,…

  • Vodafone’s Japan Blunder

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    I keep hearing that Vodafone is not doing well at all in Japan, and now this: I can’t see how Vodafone can get out of the hole they dug themselves into. Gerhard Fasol, president of Eurotechnology-Japan, a consulting company, speculating that Softbank Corp, a Japanese broadband Internet provider that’s trying to get a cell-phone license,…