DANNY CHOO KNOWS JAPANESE POP CULTURE
danny choo is a mogul! i’m not kidding. and whoever aims to be a mogul in the near future should be taking lessons from this guy! his ever growing empire includes…pretty much everything: new and traditional media, speeches given at conferences around the world, a wide range of related products and so on. he’s just...
I HAVE THIS HUGE CRUSH ON TOKYO
i’ve been having this heart-wrenching crush on tokyo for a while…it’s been an unexpected, persistent and consuming obsession. of…
PATRICK W. GALBRAITH – THE OTAKU PHD
i wrote about the otaku encyclopedia a while ago: it’s so well-written i couldn’t let go of it even if i’m not necessarily an otaku and i believe that’s no small feat for a writer. its author is us-born, tokyo-based journalist patrick w. gaklbraith. click here for the otaku abcs and then start reading the insightful...
IOAN LIVIU ORLETCHI – THE WORLD THROUGH HIS LENS
my friend liviu introduced me to tokyo: without him things would have never been the same! thank you, liviu! born in romania, he left the country for canada in ’87 only to move to tokyo in ’94 and become a full-fledged tokyoite. he divides his time between being an english teacher and a restless globe trotting free...
JAPAN THROUGH JAPANESE EYES – TAIKI
last, but certainly not least, taiki yamashita! not only does his trading job sends him traveling world-wide but apparently his future trip will be to romania. i will make sure he will take beautiful shots of the best places. but, until i get the chance to meet taiki in person, i’m browsing through his many pictures. i...
JAPAN THROUGH JAPANESE EYES – AKAGAI
akagai tamori is a tokyo-based musician, illustrator (he does his own manga) and photographer. he is very thorough in his undertakings and he likes cats. enjoy his work!
JAPAN THROUGH JAPANESE EYES – AKIRA
akira shimizu is my friend from osaka. he may seem a regular salary man going to his workplace in umeda building but there is nothing regular about akira: he’s tall, fluent in english and very open-minded about the non-japanese world. he’s also an amateur photographer and musician: check his very cool band, yusari.
PHARRELL LOVES NEW TOKYO
pharrell has been on my list for a long time and this collaboration with palladium boots is not surprising: he’s visiting post-3/11 tokyo, shows the best of it and all the ways in which the city is changing since the catastrophe.
ME+JAPAN=NOT HAPPENING THIS AUTUMN
so the organizers just released the names of the semi-finalists and mine is not on the list. there is endless bickering on their facebook page because:
VISIT JAPAN!
i was telling you last monday that i applied for a life-changing job. i found out i am one of the 1,897 people (!!) who are going to be half crazy nervous/half insanely excited until the 15th of august, when the short list will be released. this is a private initiative (powered by a kanazawa-based...
