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Category: Media

  • You Make Shibuya

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    Maki Nomiya and Hideki Kaji are turning into ambassadors for Shibuya — you’ll remember that they’re doing a weekly Shibuya-kei radio show together these days — and on this official Shibuya-ku website, promoting a “You Make Shibuya” campaign, you can listen to a song they made together. Below (photo by Patrick Benny), you can see…

  • 3350 Tracks from Haruki Murakami’s Record Collection

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    Need some music guidance? This Open Culture post shares a Spotify playlist made up of 3350 tracks form Haruki Murakami‘s record collection — which you can partially see in this post’s photo (taken from his website).

  • Editmode

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    The new episode of Toco Toco TV is out, and as expected it covers Editmode, the company behind the fantastic The King of Games line of game-related clothing. I love everything that Editmode produces, and loved seeing them talk about what inspires them, and how they got their start (and seeing them visit some of…

  • The Power of Women

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    Sure, this may be an elaborate commercial for sweets, but at the same it’s a really fun “sort of” music video that reveals the power Japanese women have over men — or rather, how easy Japanese men are manipulated. Via this tweet.

  • Your Name in America

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    My buddy Matt Alt wrote a great piece for The New Yorker about the arrival of Your Name — a film I loved to death — to North America.

  • Harajuku Post Fruits & Kera

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    In his latest Ametora Dispatches newsletter, David writes up a nice essay about the the recent closings of “Harajuku fashion” magazines Fruits and Kera — and he also points out this article, that I haven’t had a chance to read yet, but that looks like a decent look at the past and present of the Harajuku…

  • The Japan 80s on Vinyl

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    I think this Japan Times piece makes a nice follow-up to what I had recently shared about the resurgence of “city pop” — here, we look at the resurgence of the physical vinyls themselves, as well as re-issues.

  • The Science of LifeWear

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    I got to this Uniqlo CM from that article I just mentioned, and like it for the Tokyo settings you see in the background — even though it is kinda weird that all the featured models are non-Japanese.