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  • Summer Sonic Review

    Summer Sonic Review

    13th August 2009 | 5 comments | 1 person likes this


    Expanded from two to three days for its 10th anniversary, the biggest international acts in the world just played the Summer Sonic music festival in Japan last weekend. Held simultaneously at sites in Tokyo and Osaka, the festival is seen as one of the highlights of the Japanese summer, and here’s why.
    DAY ONE
    Sliimy is the first artist signed under celebrity blogger Perez Hilton’s new record label, Perezcious Music. Dressed in...

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  • Rossiyan jam tea

    Rossiyan jam tea

    21st July 2009 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this


    Recently my mother and I were visiting Matsumoto in the Nagano prefecture in Japan and we popped into an unassuming café on the road leading up to the city’s historic castle.
    Both of us being tea aficionados, the ‘Rossiyan jam tea’ on the menu piqued our interest. When the various components of the drink arrived we were unsure how to drink it, let alone knowing what all the different dishes were.
    With...

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  • Graffiti Japan

    Graffiti Japan

    25th June 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this


    Loving graffiti, Tokyo-based photographer Remo Camerota had an idea to be a graffiti artist himself. But as he says, “Instead I decided to do a book on the subject of Japanese graffiti as there wasn’t one.” From there he contacted Japanese artists who invited him to meet with them. He ended up living with some of these artists and being taken to secret sites that appear in his book Graffiti...

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