Shirako: The rising Japanese culinary trend of eating fish sperm
Would you try it?
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Koji Kondo: the most popular Japanese composer you’ve never heard of
I guarantee, you know this man’s work.
Gorgeous covers of the Japanese magazine ‘Teen Look’ from the 1960s
When the Japanese decide to do something right, they really do it right.
The insane Japanese game show where contestants get hand jobs while singing karaoke
Leave it to late-night Japanese television to make things weird.
‘Love Exposure’: The sprawling Japanese cult masterpiece that you need to see before you die
Sin, perversion, cults, and rock‑opera levels of emotional overload.
The gorgeously disaffected arty glam rock of David Sylvian and Japan
Glam rock’s history is clustered into two distinct eras: its initial early 70s glitter-pop boom (T.Rex, Sweet, Slade, Suzi, Bowie, New York Dolls) and its…
Back to the Future: Bryan Ferry live in concert, Japan 1977
In 1983, Dexy’s Midnight Runners’ frontman Kevin Rowland managed to get his band booted off their prestigious support gig on David Bowie’s Serious Moonlight tour.…