A glimpse of pink Tokyo
Perhaps on their way to go shopping, a mother leads her brightly-dressed little girl along a quiet but well-traveled street in Nakano-ku…
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A song like “Tokyo Storm Warning” is closer to real life than you think… You have to suck Tokyo into your lungs and let it rewrite your DNA. You have to piece together your own reality one combini at a...
View ArticleLong live rock (plus bonus track)
Odd thing about Tokyo: it’s more rock and roll than where you live… American ghosts do a rag time in Tokyo smashing the feedback of a million wartime guitars… There is never any opera. Tokyo is pure...
View ArticleTokyo Freedom
Stopping in for a drink in a small, beautiful Tokyo dive… The tiny neighborhood bars and watering holes distributed throughout Tokyo are probably as numerous as the stars on a clear night in the...
View ArticleAn umbrella before the sugar melts
Rain is never coming, rain is always here… (Nakano 5-chome, Tokyo, November 2015. This is sort of part of my Sunday S&R Tokyo Series. See my other work here and here.)
View ArticleThe big issue
Homelessness ain’t just an American thing… Part of my S&R Tokyo Series He was selling The Big Issue Japan on the south side of Nakano Station, so despite his immaculate appearance I […]
View ArticleTokyo laundromatters
“I’m down at the laundromat trying to get my washing done.” –The Pretenders Part of my S&R Tokyo Series When I travel to Tokyo I stay in an apartment building in Nakano […]
View ArticleThis Mormon boy
In the land of friendly liquor and benevolent caffeine… Part of my S&R Tokyo Series This Mormon boy (I didn’t get his name and it doesn’t matter) was on his mission at […]
View ArticleNakano laundromat
Continuing my S&R Tokyo Series… At a small laundromat in Tokyo I loitered outside to see how people go. They were slow. It was November and they were slow. But in Tokyo […]
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