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Notes on Summer Sonic 2012
What a difference a year makes. As with last year’s Summer Sonic, Tokyo edition, I started the festival Saturday morning with the first act on the Sonic Stage, which this year happened to be Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, the mostly self-invented … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Adam Lambert, Azealia Banks, Gotye, Grimes, Japan, Kesha, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Momoiro Clover Z, Passion Pit, Perfume, Rihanna, St. Vincent, Summer Sonic Festival
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Media Mix, Aug. 7, 2011
Here’s this week’s Media Mix, which is about the various schemes to influence public opinion with regard to Japan’s nuclear energy policy. As I pointed out at the end, the press is mainly using the word “manipulate” to describe what … Continue reading
Posted in Media
Tagged Japan, Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Nuclear power, Tokyo Shimbun
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Seidensticker’s Tokyo, and ours
Several years ago while writing a column about life in Tokyo I realized how little I really knew about the history of the city I had lived in since 1994 and worked in since 1986. On Amazon I sought Edward … Continue reading
Posted in Me
Tagged Asakusa, Donald Richie, Edward Seidensticker, Japan, Kabukicho, Paul Waley, Sanya, Shinobazu Pond, Tokyo, Yoshiwara
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Media Mix, Jan. 30, 2011
Here’s this week’s Media Mix, which is about that BBC quiz show which offended a lot of Japanese people. I’m hoping that anyone who reads the column will not automatically connect it to the common generalization that all Japanese people … Continue reading
Posted in Media
Tagged BBC, Japan, North Korea, North Korean abductees, victims rights
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