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Category: Books

  • Call for American Otaku

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    Are you an American otaku looking to share your passion? If so, Patrick Macias needs you for his next book project, AMERICAN OTAKU PEOPLE RETSUDEN.

  • Plastic Culture

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    I’m sure that most of you who read this site on a regular basis are well aware of my affinity for figures — it’s beyond my control. If you share that love, then do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of Woodrow Phoenix‘s PLASTIC CULTURE: HOW JAPANESE TOYS CONQUERED THE WORLD. It was…

  • Reading on My Mobile

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    Lisa has a piece up at Wired News on the popularity of novels for mobile phones in Japan.

  • LOGOS Gallery Winter Sale

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    The big foreign books winter sale at LOGOS Gallery starts this Friday (December 29), and will run until January 15. This is always a great opportunity to get some nice art and design-related books at heavily discounted prices. I stopped by the LOGOS store today while in Shibuya, and ended up picking up a copy…

  • Wallpaper* City Guide: Tokyo

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    The other day I picked up the Tokyo edition of the recently launched “Wallpaper* City Guide” travel series from Phaidon. Looking at the format, I really like what they’ve done, releasing something affordable (only 1000 yen), and quite functional as well — they’ve really done a good job with the way the book gets divided,…

  • Japanamerica

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    JAPANAMERICA is a new book that takes a look at the convergence between Japanese and American pop cultures, and it’s something I really want to read (I don’t have a copy yet, but will get one soon). The author, Roland Kelts, was one of the contributors to CMP‘s KUHAKU — he divides his time between…

  • Gas Book 24: Hideki Inaba

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    The next GAS BOOK (24) is set to come out December 8, and not only does it cover the works of graphic designer Hideki Inaba, but it also marks a change in the format (again by Inaba, who created the original format), and a doubling of the page count. The ATMOSPHERE blog has more details.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    ABC Shibuya The Freshest Brand You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).