Month: April 2005

  • Ikea in Japan

    Patrick gets the scoop on when Ikea will be back in Japan — they’ve started building the shop in Yokohama, to be opened in 2006.

  • New JT Campaign

    According to Marxy, JT Tobacco has recently launched a new set of anti-tobacco ads. I haven’t seen them in stations yet.

  • Electroplankton Launch Event

    The launch event at the Laforet Museum for the Nintendo DS game ELECROPLANKTON. They had quite a few DSes on hand for you to test out the game, including quality headphones. The big screens projected visuals from the game, and a DJ was on hand. Other parts of the space had some of media artist…

  • TW: Tokyo Cafe Style

    If you’re into the Tokyo cafe scene, you might want to pick the new issue of TOKYO WALKER (out today). The feature covers “Tokyo Cafe Style,” a look at the latest cafes to open in the city, a few trends, etc. It’s not the best of guides — I prefer the cafe guides they do…

  • An afternoon in Harajuku and Shibuya

    I was going to just stay in Ikebukuro yesterday, run a few errands, taking it easy, but then Yuko had to go to Shibuya (more precisely, to the Todai Komaba campus) and so I went with her. I started out by going to Tower Records to check out the magazines, and it’s when I was…

  • Marxy Vs. J-Wave

    Catch Marxy on J-Wave early tomorrow (Tuesday) morning here in Tokyo. Tommorow morning around 8:30 AM, there will be a live phone-interview with me, Marxy, on John Kabira’s J-WAVE Good Morning Tokyo (81.3 FM). Tune in if you’re in town.

  • Sakura 2005

    You can’t very well claim to have a Tokyo blog and not include at least one pic of the sakura in full bloom, so here’s my entry. On Saturday — runny nose and itchy eyes in full effect — we went to Koma, just outside the city on the Seibu-Ikebukuro line. And since I almost…

  • Shift 101

    The new issue of SHIFT (101) is up, featuring a cover design by Bob Sanderson.