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Kawasaki Jomon 10,000 Years
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 One can’t help [...]
Intermixi
Anime tourism experiences a boom despite the gloomy economy
Japan F1 Grand Prix
It’s Brit versus Brit in Suzuka
Napalm Death
The founders of grindcore just want you to take it easy
Someno Collection
Slapdash ceramics stir the mind at the National Museum of Modern Art
Forest Conservation in Tsukuba
Is a new housing tract “green development” or short-sighted destruction?
Bathed in Blood
Director Koji Shiraishi’s torture-porn flick Grotesque gets banned in Britain—and ignites a debate about Japan’s splatter-film boom
Palau
Heaven in the Pacific... weather permitting
Kawasaki Fish Market
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 A nice sense [...]
That’s One Rockin’ Rabbit
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2009 This column lost [...]