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Month: February 2005

  • The Music Channel Tour Continues

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    Time to take another look at the music channels to see what’s up with the Jpop/Jrock scene. SpaceShowerTV has a live concert of Jackson Vibe. Feelgood punkrock I guess. They’re a ska-rock band that lost one of its members in a tour accident (car crash) last year. And the singer was a VJ on MTV…

  • Design Column for February

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    My latest design column for Tokyo Q is up. I’ve got homes on my mind.

  • Gridskipper

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    Gawker Media has just launched a new blog dedicated to travel, Gridskipper, which I’m really liking. Here’s a link to the Tokyo related posts.

  • More Maid Cafe News

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    Patrick recently wrote about his visit to a maid cafe in Nakano (in the Broadway shopping center), and THE JAPAN TIMES joins in with a short article on the phenomenon. They actually start off with a description of the economic power that the “otaku” audience now commands, with a “total market size of the major…

  • Observation Bath

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    In Japan, the bath is quite sacred. One of the things I most look forward to at the end of each day is to soak in a very hot bath. We all know that Momus has taken quite a liking to it also. Now comes news that the soon-to-open Chubu International Airport in Nagoya is…

  • JDN Tour of Archilab

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    If you can’t make it to Tokyo for the the excellent MAM “Archilab” exhibition, let Japan Design Net take you on a tour of the show. Link via Dezain.net.

  • Gizmodo

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    Some of you might remember me alluding to a possible new writing opportunity a while back, and I can finally announce that I’ve become a Japanese correspondent to Gizmodo, part of the Gawker Media empire. A couple of months ago, I had the great pleasure of spending some time with the man behind Gawker Media,…

  • Smoker’s Style

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    Believe it or not, but this place in Akihabara, called Smoker’s Style, is just a giant room with vending machines and chairs where you can freely smoke. You could barely see the people inside because of the smoke. Absolutely disgusting.

  • Saku Saku

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    Patrick has a post up about the very wacky Saku Saku TV program. It airs on TVK, which is only available in Yokohama, so we don’t get to see it here in Tokyo. A while back, Yuko got a few tapes from a friend, and I would glance over while she was watching. Funny stuff.

  • Insane Shooting

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    These independently created shooters (by an artist called ZUN) look absolutely insane. For you PC users, have at it, while us Mac users look on quietly… Link via Octopus Dropkick!