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• Bookmark Virtual Girl Nem's "Metaverse Evolution Theory" Intro Published in English

  The introduction to the book Metaverse Evolution Theory by Japanese VTuber and writer Virtual Girl Nem has now been published in English. The 5,000-word introduction is available at her official Medium…

  March 22 2024, 4:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Westernisation fact or fiction? The case of Japan and the US…

  In 1860, Fukuzawa Yukichi, a young Japanese student still learning English himself, accompanied the first ever Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States as its English interpreter.

  March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments

• Reddit Residents living permanently in Japan's cyber-cafés - Lost in Manboo (2015) A four-square-metre box with a screen and computer. This is what Japanese cyber-cafes offer, around the clock. Most customers just spend an hour or two here. But there are thousands who spend their lives in them.

  April 5 2019, 12:20am | Comments

• Bookmark It's So Hot in Japan, the Fake Food in Restaurant Windows Is…

  A friend of mine flew from northern California, to North Carolina on Saturday night and was immediately surprised by what she encountered when she landed. “Why is it so hot here?”…

  August 14 2018, 8:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind -…

  As the country’s population ages and shrinks, there’s increasing demand for services that clean out and dispose of the property of the dead.

  August 7 2018, 6:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Unbelievably True Story Of A 'Good-For-Nothing' Artist And Her Revolutionary Vagina…

  This article contains extensive descriptions of vaginas and might be NSFW, depending on your place of work. Growing up, Japanese artist Rokudenashiko ― who uses a pseudonym that translates to “good-for-nothing”…

  September 21 2016, 10:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Abandoned shops, discarded laundry and traffic lights signalling to empty streets: Eerie…

  More than five years after the devastating tsunami and the 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck north-eastern Japan, causing the explosion of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, the Japanese town remains abandoned. Since…

  July 12 2016, 1:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark Post-Human Nightmares – The World of Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema

  A man wakes up one morning to find himself slowly transforming into a living hybrid of meat and scrap metal; he dreams of being sodomised by a woman with a snakelike,…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 2 2014, 4:48am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 3 2014, 3:01pm | Comments

• Tumblr Flesh Love

  April 24 2013, 1:01pm | Comments

• Tumblr rrrrrrrroll

  March 8 2013, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Litterplugs | cabel.me

  We all know it’s not cool to litter. If our hands are burdened with the weighty responsibility of an unwanted and snot-spent tissue, or an empty aluminum can that once held…

  February 11 2013, 9:33am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Tumblr Tokyo Compression

  May 31 2012, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The social cell

  A single cell, such as a bacterium, is the simplest thing that can be alive. In addition to the materials from which it is constructed, it needs three features: a way…

  April 30 2012, 10:46am | Comments

• Tumblr revelation2220: Pictured is the Super-Kamiokande, a giant...

  April 23 2012, 7:25am | Comments

• Bookmark What Makes Sushi Great?

  Sushi, of course, is the ultimate in simple food: mostly just rice and a piece of raw fish, it would seem that anyone with a knife and one functioning hand can…

  March 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

• Tumblr Godzilla shoes

  January 25 2012, 4:15am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook

  December 19 2011, 9:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 5 2011, 5:56am | Comments

• Flickr GLTI.CH Karaoke

  April 3 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at…

  April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game

  The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards…

  March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

• Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

  March 25 2011, 9:38am | Comments

• Tumblr Punctures - Shintaro Kago

  February 17 2011, 7:15am | Comments

• Flickr Eyebrows (1)

  September 4 2010, 8:04pm | Comments

• Flickr alone

  September 4 2010, 12:34am | Comments

• Bookmark SAME HAT! (tumblr)

  For folks that haven't checked it yet, the newly re-launched SAME HAT TUMBLR is up and running! The SAME HAT! Tumblr is curated and run by 8 contributors. It features art/videos/music…

  August 16 2010, 2:34am | Comments

• Tumblr Neutrinos are some of the most abundant yet mysterious particles in our unive...

  June 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Bookmark My Famicase Exhibition 2010

  With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The premise?…

  May 13 2010, 5:25am | Comments

• Flickr IMG_7318

  November 24 2009, 12:28pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Virtual Girl Nem's "Metaverse Evolution Theory" Intro Published in English

  The introduction to the book Metaverse Evolution Theory by Japanese VTuber and writer Virtual Girl Nem has now been published in English. The 5,000-word introduction is available at her official Medium…

  March 22 2024, 4:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Is Westernisation fact or fiction? The case of Japan and the US…

  In 1860, Fukuzawa Yukichi, a young Japanese student still learning English himself, accompanied the first ever Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States as its English interpreter.

  March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments

• Reddit Residents living permanently in Japan's cyber-cafés - Lost in Manboo (2015) A four-square-metre box with a screen and computer. This is what Japanese cyber-cafes offer, around the clock. Most customers just spend an hour or two here. But there are thousands who spend their lives in them.

  April 5 2019, 12:20am | Comments

• Bookmark It's So Hot in Japan, the Fake Food in Restaurant Windows Is…

  A friend of mine flew from northern California, to North Carolina on Saturday night and was immediately surprised by what she encountered when she landed. “Why is it so hot here?”…

  August 14 2018, 8:41pm | Comments

• Bookmark Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind -…

  As the country’s population ages and shrinks, there’s increasing demand for services that clean out and dispose of the property of the dead.

  August 7 2018, 6:32pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Unbelievably True Story Of A 'Good-For-Nothing' Artist And Her Revolutionary Vagina…

  This article contains extensive descriptions of vaginas and might be NSFW, depending on your place of work. Growing up, Japanese artist Rokudenashiko ― who uses a pseudonym that translates to “good-for-nothing”…

  September 21 2016, 10:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Abandoned shops, discarded laundry and traffic lights signalling to empty streets: Eerie…

  More than five years after the devastating tsunami and the 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck north-eastern Japan, causing the explosion of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, the Japanese town remains abandoned. Since…

  July 12 2016, 1:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark Post-Human Nightmares – The World of Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema

  A man wakes up one morning to find himself slowly transforming into a living hybrid of meat and scrap metal; he dreams of being sodomised by a woman with a snakelike,…

  October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments

• Vimeo

  May 2 2014, 4:48am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 3 2014, 3:01pm | Comments

• Tumblr Flesh Love

  April 24 2013, 1:01pm | Comments

• Tumblr rrrrrrrroll

  March 8 2013, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Litterplugs | cabel.me

  We all know it’s not cool to litter. If our hands are burdened with the weighty responsibility of an unwanted and snot-spent tissue, or an empty aluminum can that once held…

  February 11 2013, 9:33am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

  September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Tumblr Tokyo Compression

  May 31 2012, 3:33am | Comments

• Bookmark The social cell

  A single cell, such as a bacterium, is the simplest thing that can be alive. In addition to the materials from which it is constructed, it needs three features: a way…

  April 30 2012, 10:46am | Comments

• Tumblr revelation2220: Pictured is the Super-Kamiokande, a giant...

  April 23 2012, 7:25am | Comments

• Bookmark What Makes Sushi Great?

  Sushi, of course, is the ultimate in simple food: mostly just rice and a piece of raw fish, it would seem that anyone with a knife and one functioning hand can…

  March 15 2012, 5:51am | Comments

• Tumblr Godzilla shoes

  January 25 2012, 4:15am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook

  December 19 2011, 9:35am | Comments

• YouTube

  May 5 2011, 5:56am | Comments

• Flickr GLTI.CH Karaoke

  April 3 2011, 7:04am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them have been removed from YouTube. What Japanese language songs do you sing at karaoke at…

  April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Japanese people need our solidarity, not a blame game

  The earthquake confirms that a pre‑Enlightenment urge to blame human greed for natural disasters is making a comeback. The Japanese proverb ‘fix the problem, not the blame’ captures an attitude towards…

  March 26 2011, 1:48pm | Comments

• Projects GLTI.CH Karaoke

  March 25 2011, 9:38am | Comments

• Tumblr Punctures - Shintaro Kago

  February 17 2011, 7:15am | Comments

• Flickr Eyebrows (1)

  September 4 2010, 8:04pm | Comments

• Flickr alone

  September 4 2010, 12:34am | Comments

• Bookmark SAME HAT! (tumblr)

  For folks that haven't checked it yet, the newly re-launched SAME HAT TUMBLR is up and running! The SAME HAT! Tumblr is curated and run by 8 contributors. It features art/videos/music…

  August 16 2010, 2:34am | Comments

• Tumblr Neutrinos are some of the most abundant yet mysterious particles in our unive...

  June 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

• Bookmark My Famicase Exhibition 2010

  With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The premise?…

  May 13 2010, 5:25am | Comments

• Flickr IMG_7318

  November 24 2009, 12:28pm | Comments

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