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- The Return of Charisma Man
- July 21st, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- 'Charisma Man' has become almost a byword for the foreign guy everybody meets at least once while staying in Japan. The complete geek back home, when he steps off the plane at Narita, that otaku exterior is replaced by one of an international man of mystery, the focu ... » Continue Reading
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- Toho Studios
- July 16th, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Located in a surprisingly wealthy part of Setagaya here in Tokyo is the sprawling home of Toho Studios. Not only is Toho the largest and most famous film studio in Japan, but it’s the owner of one of the more internationally famous film logos, on par for Asian cinema ... » Continue Reading
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- Ninja Attack! True Tales of Assassins, Samurai, and Outlaws
- July 14th, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Authors, Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt, are a husband and wife team who run a Tokyo-based translation company that specializes in producing the English versions of Japanese video games, comic books and literature. They are the co-authors of “Yokai Attack!”, a guidebook to ... » Continue Reading
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- Teachers vs. Doers- What to look for in a martial arts instructor.
- July 13th, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment, Travel
- The other day, I was having a conversation with good friend and martial arts writer, Keith Vargo about his experience training at Tokyo’s infamous Takada Dojo. During the conversation he jokingly mentioned how one of his best instructors at the dojo actually didn’t ... » Continue Reading
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- Spotlight: Ghost in the Shell / Innocence
- July 9th, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment, Culture
- To get in you in the mood for our recently announced animation competition Andrez bergen has put together this look at the Ghost in the Shell series. What other nation in the world annihilates its own capital as much as Japan tends to? Think of all the times Tokyo's be ... » Continue Reading
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- Tinier Me X Gloomy Collaboration
- May 21st, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- To refresh and replenish: TinierMe is a Japanese Anime Avatar site that made it's USA debut last year. Since it hit over 700,000 users stateside have been active on the site. For moreinfo about TinierMe you can watch this promo: Since the site has become quite popu ... » Continue Reading
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- Satoshi Kon’s The Dreaming Machine
- May 21st, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Late last year I interviewed essential Japanese anime director Satoshi Kon (he of the notoriety of Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers, and the brilliant Millennium Actress), and that interview appeared in the January issue of Impact mag over in the UK. I'll be running with th ... » Continue Reading
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- Last days of the Kabukiza Theater, Ginza
- May 17th, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- The Closing ceremonies for the five-decade-old Kabuki-za theater, located in Ginza, were held recently and Tokyo blogger Shibuya246.com was there just before in order to get some awesome final photos. Entertainment company Shochiku announced in 2008 that the theate ... » Continue Reading
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- 10 rules for creating an idol group
- April 19th, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- SKE48 is an all-girl group named after the Sakae area of Nagoya. You can see them performing in Shunshine Sakae close to Sakae station on the Higashi-Yama and Mejiro Lines. The girls in action. The group are a sister-group of the more famous AKB48 and were in Tok ... » Continue Reading
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- Hiroshi Abe’s New Trick
- April 19th, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- I like Hiroshi Abe. The last time I saw him (aside from in recurrent TV advertising here in Japan) was in the 2008 reshooting of Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 epic Kakushi toride no san akunin (The Hidden Fortress) – the movie that George Lucas has admitted made such a hug ... » Continue Reading
- Hakone: A Day Trip to Remember
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- Gimme Origami!
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- The Japanese Rite of Passage
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- Do you want to connect with AKB48 on Google+?
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- Snapshots With the GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition
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