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  • Arcade Mania in Print

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    Look what got delivered to me this morning: beautiful print copies of Arcade Mania! I can’t even start to describe the thrill of finally getting to hold this thing in my hands, and it looks absolutely terrific, even better than what I was hoping. To update you on a few things, the official site for…

  • Arcade Mania Flickr Group

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    We’ve created an Arcade Mania Flickr group to collect shots of Japan’s game centers — join and add yours! The photo above is by Yuki.

  • Art Space Tokyo: Nakaochiai Gallery

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    Art Space Tokyo has released another free PDF map from the book, this time covering the area around the Nakaochiai Gallery. Get it here, and don’t forget that buying the book is a damn good idea too!

  • Arcade Mania

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    So there you have it, the cover to Arcade Mania: The Turbo-Charged World of Japan’s Game Centers. That is indeed the book I’ve been working on since last fall, and it’s finally time to start revealing details. First of all, you’ll notice that Brian Ashcraft — the man without whom there’s no way in hell…

  • Curing Japan’s America Addiction

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    I’m not quite sure how I missed this — let’s blame it on me being out of the country for the month — but Chin Music Press has a new release, in the form of Minoru Morita’s Curing Japan’s America Addiction. Mr. Morita argues that President Bush and former Prime MInister Junichiro Koizumi have all…

  • Happening in Tokyo

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    You’ll want to hit Ikebukuro for the 6th annual “Kappa Ten” (Kappa Exhibition) at the Artist Garden gallery (July 10-22). As Matt Alt describes it, “it’s a celebration of everyone’s favorite cucumber-eatin’, sumo-wrestlin’, anus-attackin’, water-dwellin’ yokai from Japanese folklore,” and will include artwork from more than twenty artists. Matt’s Yokai Attack! book will also be…

  • Nadiff Re-opens Soon

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    For everyone who’s missed the Nadiff art bookshop, it re-opens next week (July 7) in a new art building in Ebisu that will also be the new home of Magical Artroom and G/P Gallery. More details at Art Space Tokyo.

  • PingMag: Japanese Rooms

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    PingMag interviews artist/designer Sven Ingmar Thies about his book Japanese Rooms, which I mentioned a while back.