I watched a most troubling film last night, called “It`s a free world” by that master of social realism and sub-conscious activism, Ken Loach. It was not what I`d call an enjoyable movie, it was hard to watch, hard to see the humanity slowly erode...

Last month, in an effort to kerb a rising suicide rates, and at a cost of some 15 million yen, or $165,000, JR (Japan Railways)  installed blue LED lights at all 29 stations on the Yamanote line. Other lines have also begun to install the lights at...

Thanks to a timely phone call from my good friend Uchujin, I was able to go catch an important demo in Shibuya tonight. Important because it could change the face of Japanese demographics. Well sort of… As part of the election manifesto this summer...

Days Japan magazine along with Waseda University are holding a festival of photojournalism from today until December 5th. There will be a special slideshow of photojournalism images taken by foreign residents in Japan showing on the 26th. I don`t know...

So I am busy and it is harder to post here the words and stories I want at least of the hoped for quality I want anyways. Plus I have met a few people over the last few weeks who have brought home to me the necessity of networking to improve my...