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  • A Look at the Sex Trafficking Industry in Japan

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    My friend Lisa writes the feature for this week’s edition of METROPOLIS (673). Despite tough new laws, Japan’s sex trafficking industry is booming. Meet one of its most tragic victims.

  • Chuoism

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    Even though urban renewal can be an exciting topic — I’m a sucker for big projects that “positively” transform neighborhoods — Joi Ito tears down the “Chuoism” happening out in Chiba.

  • The Urawaza Way

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    Lisa has a fun piece in the new issue of WIRED (14.10) on the Japanese urawaza (secret tricks) phenomenon. I love how they illustrated the article.

  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Neomarxisme but Were Afraid to Ask

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    I think the title says it all, behold: “Master Topic List for First-Time Neomarxisme Readers.” Basically, it’s your way to get to all of Marxy’s best essays.

  • LOHAS for Everyone

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    You’ve probably noticed me using the term LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) often in my “This Week in Magazines” posts, since it’s become a favorite topic of quite a few magazines. If you’re not really quite sure what the term represents and how it got started, last week’s issue of METROPOLIS had an informative…

  • Hyper-Speed Product Proliferation

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    Since, you know, “the super-techno cyberpunk Shinto Japanese like speed” so much, it’s only fitting that they would distribute their products in a fitting manner. See what Marxy has to say on the subject.

  • Speed Tribes

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    Marxy offers up some thoughts on Karl Taro Greenfeld’s 1995 look at Japanese youth culture, SPEED TRIBES. I’m quite interested by the reading suggestions he makes at the end of the piece, things I haven’t had a chance to read (I’m so behind on book reading actually, finding it hard to get through books these…

  • Animal Fun

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    I’ve alluded a few times to the fact that Yuko has developed a bit of an obsession over DOUBUTSU NO MORI (ANIMAL CROSSING) and that I’ve pretty much lost access to my DS because of it — I won’t tell you how many hours she plays a day, but I think you can already figure…

  • Japanesque Modern

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    From Kyodo News, under the title “Businesses, academia launch ‘Japanesque modern’ campaign”: Leading businesses including Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and Toyota Motor Corp as well as universities and designers launched a three-year campaign Saturday to heighten Japan’s brand image based on its traditional culture. A total of 48 companies, seven schools, 11 industrial groups and…

  • The Love of Sleep

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    One thing I always appreciate when Momus spends time in Japan is that his blog, Click Opera, suddenly gets a very heavy Japan focus. Today, the topic is sleep, and he also connects it to the magazine KU:NEL. In a related note, when I was talking with the staff at Cafe Pause this week about…