Flight into Beijing departs three hours late, and when our party eventually checks into the hotel its one in the morning. For some reason hotel …
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Movie poster for non-Japanese film. Of note: use of the first person in communicating I’m Sorry; the readers’ literacy to understand that it is a warning …
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Digital price signs in a Tokyo supermarket. Which of the pricing models enabled and popularised by the internet – will make it to a (Tokyo) …
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Back alley cinema in Sangenjaya. Of note? No barriers to segregate men and women during the queueing process – for example that is commonly found in …
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What gets translated. What doesn’t.
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The sign for temple drawn on this wall. Why? The wall is situated in a maze of bars and izakaya in the back of Sangenjaya – …
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Thoughts for today from Tokyo via India, Brazil and China Many of our Dharavi study participants had access to mains water for three hours out of …
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The place where you’re likely to find a queue first thing in the morning in the US is outside the phone operator store; in Japan …
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ATM’s are almost exclusively found inside buildings in Japan yet commonly accessible directly from the street in cities like Helsinki or London. The relatively low recorded …
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