Ueno’s Masahiro Tatematsu
April 9, 2009 · Heaven Artists, Japan · 6 Comments 

Masahiro Tatematsu is another heaven artist like Yukinko Akira, regularly putting out a unique and innovative street-entertainment product that had to pass multiple auditions to get through. He is a self-styled bicycle percussionist, playing  a motley assortment of xylophones, mini…

Tokyo’s vast underground temple-drains: the G-Cans
April 8, 2009 · Catacombs / Caves, Haikyo, Tokyo-to · 13 Comments 

The G-Cans Underground Temple in Saitama is probably the most massive underground flood management system in the world- comprised of 100s of kilometers of tunnels up to 50 meters underground connecting 5 vast silos and one immense water tank: The…

Relics of WW2- the Japanese station that ordered Pearl Harbour

On December 2nd 1941, just 6 days before the Japanese opened hostilities in the Pacific War against the Allies by bombing Pearl Harbour, a coded signal went out from the Kemigawa Transmission Station in Tochigi to all the Empire of…

Tanglewood
April 2, 2009 · Fantasy, Stories · Comment 

On the southernmost fringe of the tanglewood forest, beyond the kingdoms of men, in the midst of a purgatorial wasteland blighted with perpetual winter and savaged by endless storms, there stands an inn where the battle-lines between sanity and madness…

Nihombashi Kimono 2016-ers
April 1, 2009 · Japan, People / Culture · 5 Comments 

Every year on the playground of a primary school in Nihombashi hordes of kimono-wearing ladies gather for a kimono festival photo-shoot, bunching up tight and staring up to the sky with a fist raised in the classic ‘ganbarimasu!’ yes-we-can pose…

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