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Well, we actually did go through it with on Friday, and truth is I'm still recovering as we went right through from 6:00pm to 6:30am. It...

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

One of my preferred emerging Japanese artists at play here in Tokyo over the past couple of years has been the somewhat enigmatic Tsuyoshi K...

What music do you like to make love to? A simple question, really. “Sometimes I sing ‘Danger Zone’ in the bathroom. I like the music from To...

Aside from this wayward blog I also get to run an equally aberrant record label called IF? Records , through which we release a bunch of ele...

Two weeks back for my hack Flash in Japan column over at Forces of Geek I did a feature story on a bunch of cool, talented and rather dive...

Godzilla has many kaiju enemies and friends, like King Ghidorah, Biollante, Mothra, etc. I assumed the majority of Japanese musicians, espe...

It seemed somehow fitting when, in late May 2008 at the 12th Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF 2008), a charming, ...