Tokyo Comedy Bar Opens In Shibuya
After the past couple of years, we could all do with more laughs. Yet when Ben “BJ” Fox proposed opening a comedy venue in the middle of a pandemic, many…
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Japan: The Shape Of Things To Come? Find out this Sunday (May 15)
This coming Sunday (May 15, starting 10am), sees a unique event at the Yokohama campus of Meiji Gakuin University and online via Zoom, called THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME, marking the…
To End Global Warming: We Need Oil…To Be Left In The Ground
by Eddie Adelstein (special guest contributor) Scientists have abundantly proven that global warming is real and causing havoc on the planet. CO2 levels are rising with Earth’s temperatures, but the…
Back To The Matrix: The 4th Time Is The Charm. ★★★★
BTW, there is only a smattering of the “bullet-time” that made the first film so ground-breaking, but for good reasons. It’s two and a half hours of B+ grade sci-fi…
International Idol Supergroup “KUROFUNECHAN” To Perform First and Final Concert On December 14
International Idols In Japan Assemble For a One Time Performance as Kurofune-chan. The Nick Fury of the group, Alice, is leaving Japan next years.
Live from the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Closing Ceremony
By Chihiro Kai (This article was completed 22:06) As I sit here in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium press section, the seats are vibrating from the music and bass blasting out…
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Was an African musician fired from the Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony because he didn’t look Japanese?
So ashamed. I feel good that I'm no longer performing at the Tokyo Olympic Opening Ceremony...Though I’ve been contributing to the Japanese music industry since 1995...They completely violate the Olympic…
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Composer Tortured Disabled Children; Japan Says To The World, “Eat shit, no problem”
Remember that case where kids rolled up another kid in a mattress and killed him? We did that sort of thing (to the special needs kid) and stuffed them in…
The Vaccination Game: The Self-Defense Forces Vaccination Center was run smoothly but no-appointment days are over
The large-scale Self-Defense Forces vaccination center near Otemachi, Tokyo, doesn’t open for another 70 minutes, and there is already a line of people looping around the large, brown, 16 story…
The People of Tokyo Hate The Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Why do they protest?
Yesterday, June 23rd, marked one month before the opening of the “cursed” Tokyo 2020 Olympics and hundreds of residents marked the occasion by holding a protest in front of the…