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I know a lot of people decry these things, and most of us are worn out by the concept by the time the clock hits 11:59pm on December 31st, w...

So I'm now back in Tokyo, after a two week sojourn in Melbourne - the more prominent Melbourne in Australia rather than its silly nam...

It's been baking in Tokyo over the past couple of weeks or so. As I teach my students new adjectives to replace the just plain inadequat...

Before I came to Japan in 2001, I was already a bit obsessive/compulsive about Japanese electronic music - I loved Yellow Magic Orchestra...

There's a new interview up at Japanese site Clubberia , which is ostensibly there to focus on an upcoming gig I'm playing @ Unit in ...

One hefty element of happiness is... getting the printed, bound and published version of your novel for the very first time in your mitts!!!...

These are strange times here, for all too obvious reasons - and sometimes it feels like we’re collectively treading water awaiting the next ...

Strange times here in this city, for all too obvious reasons. Today the weather was beautiful and I went to work in Shinjuku ; really weirdl...

OK, so I've seen my fair share of Japanese disaster flicks; in fact I'm a fair bit of a fan. I loved Godzilla movies when I was a ki...

The latest Doraemon movie will hit cinema screens across Japan in early March, when I'm fairly certain it'll surge straight to the ...

Here's a YouTube teaser for that upcoming new novel I'm going to be a heel and shamelessly flog hereabouts over the next couple of m...

Hey mates, I'm dead sure there's a separate entry somewhere here in this blog to stick this update, but I'm chilling out with La...

Well, it looks like my earlier hack "analysis" of this year's Tokyo International Anime Fair (see here ) - and its lacklustre ...