The Dead City: Japan’s Isle of Modern Ruin
It is a useful reminder that everything familiar to us will one day be obsolescent too, ourselves included.
The End of the Night: Maki’s Travelling Blues
“When Terayama first heard her sing “When the Night Ends” he felt as if an electric shock had run through him…”
Amoeba City: Tokyo 2020
The amoeba is older and slower now, but still dreams its neon dreams
Tokyo Noir – The Silent Dead
“You’re an ignorant potato-eating slut from the boonies..”
We’d Love to Change Your Head: Japan’s Beatlemanic Moment
Into this maelstrom came The Beatles, the biggest act on the planet and symbol of youthful hedonism
Night Opens My Dreams: Kan Mikami’s North Country Blues
He is also an actor with credits in Nikkatsu’s “Roman Porno” movies and the legendary gangster series “Battles without Honour and Humanity”
One More Cup of Saké for the Road: Dylan Translated and Transformed
Borges favoured “happy and creative infidelity” and rejected the very concept of a definitive text.
Can Japan Survive Mass Tourism?
How will people react when they find their favourite sushi place filled with foreigners squirting ketchup on the maguro?
Tangled Up In Tokyo: the Japanese Side of Bob Dylan
In the late 1960s, there was a ramshackle coffee-shop called Dylan in Osaka’s Namba entertainment district which served as a meeting-place for musicians, hippies, theatre people and student radicals.
Three Women, Three Rear Windows
She refused to repudiate the yakuza boss who had acted as a father-figure since her earliest days in show-biz.