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On April 2012, I sent Greecejapan my first “Letter” from the, still, floating world called “Japan”; my idea, which the people from the website accepted...
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Fukushima Prefecture's Iwaki isn't exactly what anyone would call “main tourist attraction”; if it wasn't the birthplace of my mother-in-law I don't think I'd ever...
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In the world of high technology, and particularly in its part related to design, it's a truism that the popularity of Apple's products is partly...
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I noticed them from the first time I set foot on their areas –Nihonbashi, Kanda, Ginza, Asakusa and all the rest of the more or...
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A letter about osechi needs to be followed by one about kagami-mochi (鏡餅) perhaps the ultimate symbol of the Japanese New Year period; even more...
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Its standardization in both appearance and content makes the theory about its origins going back to the Kyoto Imperial Court of the Heian Period sound...
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Recently, Japanese media (and consequently, their international counterparts and the Internet) are once again at the subject of tattoos: because of a tattoo artist from...
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The minimalism of its aesthetics –smooth white and black lens-shaped pieces on a simple matrix of horizontal and vertical lines- and the simplicity and directness...
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Every year, when autumn starts (which, and in defiance to all logic, the Japanese believe that happens in the first week of August) they start...
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The –usually self-procalimed- experts say that if you want to see them in their full glory you need to go to Fukuoka's Nakasu or Osaka's...
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“These photos are why I'm trapped in Tokyo forever” is the title of an essay that was published recently, first in “Medium” and then in...
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Every time I play the (unofficial) tour guide to friends and acquaintances visiting Japan, I make it a point to include in the tour a...
