Sankeien Garden
Toritsu-daigaku Sakura
A little less t…
Egoless Monks at Hakone Shrine
While Hakone has a somewhat deserved reputation as being a tourist trap for day-tripping…
Meiji Shrine Wedding
One of my favou…
BCTION: Reviving Tokyo’s Dead Space
Last weekend I …
Koenji Awa Odori Festival
A week after at…
Shimokitazawa Awa Odori Festival
One of the main…
Murakami’s Tokyo: Part 3 — Otherworldly
All this week we’re celebrating the release of the English translation of Haruki Murakami’s…
Murakami’s Tokyo: Part 2 — Jazz
All this week we’re celebrating the release of the English translation of Haruki Murakami’s…
Murakami’s Tokyo: Part 1 — Beginnings
Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with…
Murakami is Coming
To celebrate the release of the English translation of Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, Colorless…
Haruki Murakami and the Japanese Mind
Walking home the other evening, a man passed me on a bicycle with a cat…