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  • Metroblogging Tokyo

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    Metroblogging Tokyo has just launched, a group blog on the city. It’s an offshoot of the Metblogs series, which started with Blogging.la.

  • Miike Goes English

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    And I’m not sure how this makes me feel. I’ve seen so many Asian movie directors get sucked into the Hollywood abyss, and I don’t really want to see the same thing happen to such an interesting filmmaker (although he already has his hits and misses). The film with Kuriyama Chiaki (KILL BILL’s Go Go…

  • Kuhaku

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    KUHAKU is a book just published by Chin Music Press, and it looks really nice. One of the people involved lives not far from here (we’ve talked about cafes in the area). You can read interviews with the authors and view art here, and they even have a canned coffee review section (I’ve probably moblogged…

  • Axis 111

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    The new issue of AXIS (111) is out, and the feature is “What gives design the power to persuade?” You can read more about the various articles that comprise this issue here. I’m looking forward to the piece on Ando Tadao’s Chichu Art Museum.

  • Momus in Shimokitazawa

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    Just a reminder that tonight marks Momus’ show at Club Que in Shimokitazawa. You can find all the details here. Unfortunately, it’s another show that I’ll have to miss.

  • Cafe Lumiere

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    This looks like it could be quite interesting. I definitely need to be exploring some of Ozu’s original works too. Produced as a part of Shochiku’s “Ozu Yasujiro 100th Anniversary Memorial Project 2003”, this is an homage Hou Hsiao-Hsien dedicated to the filmmaker he admires. The concept, along with the fact that Hitoto Yo is…

  • Pepsi-fu

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    I really like the following Pepsi commercial, that uses Japanese bunraku art. You can watch some more examples of this type of stuff, as seen on Japanese TV, here (one of those segments, the ping-pong Matrix one, did the internet rounds a while back). Link via Newstoday.

  • Kiiiiiii and Tokumaru at Uplink Gallery

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    If you can, try to catch the gig tonight at Uplink Gallery that features Kiiiiiii and Tokumaru Shugo. Present finances won’t let me go, which bums me out, but I’m consoling myself with the thought that I’m sure I’ll get to see them another time. I just noticed that there’s a matsuri (festival) outside my…

  • Synth Music

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    Nicholas D. Kent has quite the exhaustive site on synth music from Japan.

  • Vertical Sales

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    Vertical, the American publisher that releases English translations of Japanese fiction (as well as a few manga books, like Tezuka Osamu’s classic BUDDHA), now sells its books online from their site.