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Twenty-seven years ago Ryuichi Sakamoto made his not-quite-so-thrilling acting debut in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence , opposite David Bowie...

2010 been an absolutely dire year for televised anime over here in Japan, with most of the more innovative studios (Madhouse, Production I.G...

Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower (モード学園コクーンタワ) is a relatively new building in Shinjuku that I've been passing nearby for months on the way to w...

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...

Today I picked up the flier for Macross Frontier ~Sayonara no Tsubasa~ . I always hate it when they put those fancy squiggly things like ...

A couple of days a week I get to teach English to half-bored, half-cool students at a design college in Harajuku (right). The view from our ...

You’ll still find the structures in obscure narrow alleyways in downtown areas, or even in parts of Ginza - one of the most luxurious shoppi...

I'm still reeling and coming to terms with the news that anime filmmaker, screenwriter and manga-ka Satoshi Kon (今 敏), passed away on A...

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...