Photos of Showa Japan

January 30th, 2009 | 11 comments

One of my jobs when I’m not researching, writing, photographing, or washing the dishes at home is running the exhibition committee of the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Japan. Each month we have a different photo exhibition. I’m going to blog them as they happen.

Here are two photos from this month’s show, “Showa Japan seen through [...]

January 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: FCCJ exhibition, Tokyo, photography | 11 comments

New Year’s Resolutions

January 7th, 2009 | 5 comments

Sorry for the blog hiatus . . .

New Year’s Resolutions

Blog more often
Don’t get freaked out by the poor economic climate depression
Dive into multimedia (watch this space)
Shed my aversion to Photoshop
Take LOTS and LOTS of photos – preferably of things no-one’s photographed before. At least not in the same way.

Anyone have resolutions they want to share?

January 7th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: whimsy | 5 comments

Urasawa Naoki new manga

October 23rd, 2008 | One comment

Urasawa Naoki, who’s probably the most popular manga artist in Japan, has just started a new series called Billy Bat.

I spent a good part of this year reading the 24 volumes (about 5000 pages) of his last manga 20th Century Boys in Japanese so I’m a little [...]

October 23rd, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: manga, my photos | One comment