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Category Archives: travel

Happy Birthday Tetsujin 28!

Tetsujin 28
October 20, 2012 Bryan Barber Fred Ladd Fuji Television Gigantor Imagi Animation Studios Japan Ko Kojima Mitsuteru Yokoyama Sennin Buraku TCJ Tetsujin 28-go Leave a Comment

Everyday heroes: Tetsuya Chiba and the Destination Tohoku Campaign

Download the PDF to enjoy Chiba's art and yummy pics of Tohoku!
September 21, 2012 Akita International University Anpanman Dr. Darren-Jon Ashmore Great East Japan Earthquake Great Hanshin Earthquake Japan Japan Cartoonists' Association Kazuhiko Kato Kobe Lupin III manga Monkey Punch Takashi Yanase Tetsuya Chiba Tomorrow's Joe tourism Leave a Comment

Kimono: Modern Art for Modern Life

Hiroko Takahashi: "Sitting" (2010)
September 7, 2012 Clothing design fashion Hiroko Takahashi Japan kimono samue yukata Yuko Omori 2 Comments

A Sonnet for Neil Armstrong

August 26, 2012 Apollo Astronomy Earth Moon Neil Armstrong Planets poetry Solar System sonnet spaceflight Leave a Comment

Teaching Japan to Paint the Western Way: Charles Wirgman and the yoga movement

Yoshimatsu, Jiro Okabe, 1898
August 24, 2012 1867 Paris World Exposition Anna Schoyer Charles Wirgman Goseda Yoshimatsu Japan Japanese art Kano Tomonobu Kawabata Gyokusho Kobayashi Kiyochika nihonga Shimo'oka Renzo Takahashi Yuichi Theodore Blake Wirgman Yamamoto Hosui 1 Comment

Editing Japan for Foreign Consumption: Charles Wirgman

Sketchbook cover
August 17, 2012 Asia Charles Wirgman Felice Beato history Japan Japan Punch Japonisme photography 1 Comment

Pirates: A Dollystyle Fantasy

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July 19, 2012 AKB48 Broadway theatre Captain Hook Captain Jack Sparrow character toys Dolls Dolly Parton Fashion dolls HoriPro Hot Toys J. M. Barrie Johnny Depp Medicom Musical theatre Performing Arts Peter Pan Ryuhei Matsuda Shinji Takeda 2 Comments

Wonderful World Travel: To Inform & Entertain

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July 12, 2012 Akira Kume Alec Guinness anime BBC Christopher Lee Crusher Joe cultural anthropology documentary Doraemon Hiroshi Manabe Humphrey Bogart Japan Masahiro Mori Masao Oka Reithian principle Sasaki Kimori Yasushi Izumi Yoshimitsu Banno Leave a Comment

A-Kon 23: Sunrise over Dallas

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June 18, 2012 A-Kon 23 Dallas Haiku and Related Forms photography poetry Project A-Kon sunrise Leave a Comment

Natural Olympiad

Beckton Country Park, February 2012
May 7, 2012 2012 Summer Olympics Canary Wharf flowers Greenwich London nature Newham Olympics spring Stratford Westfield Leave a Comment

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