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.
Rebelling Against Reality: Jodorowsky vs. Terayama
Jodo’s father is a Stalin-worshipping sadist who insists his son bear the pain of tooth extraction without anaesthetic
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.