Straight from the Horse’s Mouth

A look at basashi in Kumamoto

Find Mystic Love in Matsue

One of Japan’s oldest shrines offers a world of connections

June 30, 2011

This week's required reading

Theodore Jennings

Founder, Vacation Veranda

The Red Shoes

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on June 2011 Now, I realize [...]

Okamoto’s

The young Shinjuku rock squad hits the big time

Short Circuit

Metropolis does the rounds of the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia International Competition, happening this week

My Back Page

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on June 2011Director Nobuhiro Yamashita’s film [...]

Campbell Gunn

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on June 2011Expatriate Scot Campbell Gunn, [...]

Tezuka Osamu no Buddha – Akai sabaku yo! Utsukushiku

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on June 2011Osamu Tezuka (1929-1989) revolutionized [...]

Untold

Phat bass underpins the Londoner’s multifaceted sound

Inductive

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2011New Tokyo-based intelligent hip-hop [...]