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I'm currently putting together a big article on sake for the Japan-i magazine and website, expanding upon and updating the merry one t...

This past week something special ended for me, and while I wouldn’t quite put it in the same league as the final episodes of Buffy the Vampi...

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...

Back in the mid 1990s in Melbourne when I used to buy most of my vinyl from my mates at Octave Records, the stand-out 12-inches on the shelv...

No, it has nothing to do with calorie control or losing weight, not even in the current global financial straitjacket - but has everything i...

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

Toshiaki Karasawa has this week been doing Wonda coffee commercials on TV and on billboards around Tokyo, including a huge one I saw today a...

I think there's not really much more I could add here - the tag-line above says it all. Seems that news of Freddie's death in 1991 w...

If the image (left) doesn't grab you straight away, take my word for it - as cheap as it sometimes is. This was was an interesting serie...

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...