I’ve got an hour before the next transport trundles by, so it’s off to the local onsen – where the pool just so happens to …



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Manage to pick up a number of new friends on the trail, or to be perfectly accurate – negotiating a storm swollen river whilst trying …
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The National Panasonic logo has a particular significance in the landscape of urban Japan – where many neighbourhoods host one of it’s petit electronics stores. …
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Today’s Monday morning commute takes me past the southern tip of the Japanese mainland to the island of Yakushima with a heavy back-to-back agenda of, …
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Continuing on the theme of presentations – Tokyo design studio colleague Younghee Jung will be presenting at the LIFT Conference Geneva in early February. Her …
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Another day, another journey this time to Ahmedabad for a study on . Not quite a hand-luggage only trip but nice to work on a …
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One of the late night conversations that seemed to occur with regularity during our Ghana field study was the stuff we do that makes us …
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Take the Keio Exit out of Shibuya Station and hang a sharp left and you’ll soon come across a crowd of spectators watching the monotonously …
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Posters for local politicians on this Sangenjaya – look carefully at the face of the third poster to see it has been gently vandalised. In many …
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Found myself on the other side of the lens this week, the lens of Tokyo based Jeremy Sutton Hibbert to be precise. Photo shoots can …
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