Nagoya

  • Kiyosu Castle
    November 11th, 2009By Iain Maloney
    While the Sixties bring to mind images of hippies, Woodstock, students on the street, The Beatles on a rooftop and Jimi’s guitar on fire, the decade wasn’t all colour and light. In Japan, from the late Fifties through the Sixties, while campuses became battlegrounds, a government project to rebuild national pride was underway. Only four » Continue Reading
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  • Komaki: Culture, Sex and Death.
    November 9th, 2009By Iain Maloney
    Thirty minutes north of Nagoya, in the heart of the commuter belt, lies Komaki. This town was formed around the castle built by Oda Nobunaga in 1563. The castle was the 3rd to be built by Nobunaga, after Nagoya and Kiyosu. The idea was to make it a staging point from which to take control » Continue Reading
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  • Shirakawa-koen: A Work of Art.
    September 28th, 2009By Iain Maloney
    I find attending art exhibitions in Japan to be a frustrating experience. The prices are often extortionate, the pieces badly displayed, and the visitors herded through like cattle on their way to an abattoir. Exhibitions of work by artists like Monet, Dali, Van Gogh et al are focused solely on getting us in front of » Continue Reading
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  • Gujo-Hachiman: Are You Dancing?
    September 24th, 2009By Iain Maloney
    Gujo is rightly famous for it’s dance festival, considered amongst the top three in the country by whoever decides these things. Initiated over 400 years ago in an act of socialist generosity by Endo Yoshitaka, the festival was meant as a way of levelling Japan’s rigid social hierarchy and bringing the whole community together. Today » Continue Reading
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  • Unprecedented Time Off
    July 24th, 2009By Jo
    Hi, all. It is now post-Uminohi, and I am sure everyone is looking forward to the Japanese summer, after the rainy season. Now that the rain is passing, most of us are probably hitting the beaches or enjoying the festivals in our local neighborhoods.  Better yet, you all are probably looking forward » Continue Reading
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  • The Osu Pigeon Army of Darkness
    July 6th, 2009By Lieske Leynen
    Back in the day, when I was living in a small town in Korea, I was walking down the street with Jenna, a friend of mine.  We were on our way to pick up some doughnuts and coffee for breakfast when out of nowhere a pigeon attacked her.  The pigeon, in » Continue Reading
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  • A Japanese Journey
    July 6th, 2009By trevor david
    I came to Japan almost 6 years ago, with absolutely no expectations. I’m not and have never been a Japan-o-phile. I don’t find manga remotely interesting. I’m not into cartoons so anime doesn’t move me. I don’t really like the sorta bland and tasteless food, (it all tastes a little like » Continue Reading
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  • Higashiyama Zoo
    June 19th, 2009By Iain Maloney
    I am ambivalent towards zoos. Part of me – the inquisitive, endlessly fascinated side – loves zoos. Seeing these creatures up close and personal, watching them move, eat and sleep at a proximity I could never experience in the wild is wondrous. Stop for a second and think about what it » Continue Reading
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  • Nagoya Joe’s
    April 27th, 2009By trevor david
    ‘..you’se a window shopper/madd at me/I think I know why/you’se a window shopper/lookin’ at ish/you know you can’t buy…’ Sittin’ in my crib listening to 50 Cent’s “Window Shopper” made me start thinking about how a lot of these Nagoya’s girls do their thing. Listen, I am not mad, people have » Continue Reading
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  • Toshincho
    April 15th, 2009By trevor david
    “C’mon baby, take a walk on the wild side..” Nagoya’s known as a conservative, homogenous, sort of bland city in Central Japan. If you’re a reader of this blog, you know I’m constantly out in the streets of  758 trying to find splashes of colour and life to refute that notion. » Continue Reading
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