Democracy: Ask an Expert, or Maybe Not
To adapt Bob Dylan, for both countries “the future is already a thing of the past.”
R.I.P. Bowie: “Like some cat from Japan…”
David Bowie and Yukio Mishima both staged their own deaths as pieces of performance art.
New Terayama / Moriyama Project – Now on Sale!
View Moriyama’s haunting black-and-white images, let your gaze rest on the unusual page lay-out and stroke the cover with your fingertips
Banknote Politics: It’s All About the Yukichis
On his return he was targeted for assassination by anti-foreigner extremists
Dead People Turn Into Words
After a hundred years you’ll understand what I mean. Come back in a hundred years’ time.
Electric Kabuki
The first mention of curry in Japan was by the great Yukichi Fukuzawa, who we see every day staring out at us from 10,000 yen notes.
Terayama’s China Doll
“The director, Shuji Terayama, signed a contract stipulating at least six sexual acts…”
“I Love You, Ken Takakura”
The criminalization of sodomy that came in with a Western-style legal code in 1872 was repealed eight years later
One Hundred Million Pop Song People
Seazer / Caesar was a futenzoku (Japanese hippie) who dropped out of art-school and joined Terayama’s avant garde theatre troupe in 1969
Can Japan Survive Mass Tourism?
Putting wi-fi on the summit of Mount Fuji is the symbolic start of a long process of de-mystification