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Home Again
10 Artists Who Have Experienced Japan
Systems and Methods in Hidden Functions
Reevaluating one of Japan’s artists of influence
Bone
Meet the Tomahawk
China: Grandeur of the Dynasties
The giant’s shifting borders
Paul Weller
Mod man’s riding his Sonik Kicks
Sound Live Tokyo
An Ueno weekend of boundary-pushing music
Oct 8, 2012
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on October 2012 An early autumn [...]
Egyptian Lover
US DJ legend from the ’80s—and Glitterball star
Ozoresan
Take a Halloween trip to hell—and stay the night
Robot
Those gigantic mechanical women everyone’s talking about
Bake
Pain au... yuzu
Documentary
Tohoku kids look to the future
The City Of Your Final Destination
Bordering on torpid
The Samaritan
Nicely complex and compellingly watchable
The Lorax
Padding blander than usual
4:44 Last Day on Earth
A little precious
White Ash
Otaku rock for the masses
The Battle 2012
Russian and Japanese street-dance off
October 4, 2012
This week’s required reading
Moonshots
Tokyo’s most long-lived expat band
Scottish Highland Games
Slap on the plaid
The 70s in Japan
Looking back at art, architecture, theater, music and manga