Behold a new item from famed host club / dandy clothiers Buffalo Bobs: water proof suits cut from miraculous Dupont Teflon fabric. The marketing campaign cuts straight to the chase: an investment of around US$460.00 will insure you against the...

Japan for sale and everything must go. Dying department store in a mall up in Kita-ku wallpapered in fading red and white paper squares. Sale. Sale. Sale. And then no sale at all…A rush job retreat that leaves battered nude...

Show notes and shitz tomorrow morning. I'm tired and hafta fold laundry... Download Hot Tears of Shame #38 © Hot Tears of Shame Production Committee/jaPRESS

For reasons not interesting enough to go into here, I was bamboozled into a trip to IKEA in darkest suburban Saitama. Aside from minor cosmetic differences, the parade of zombified shoppers punctuated by screaming children initially made the experience about...

Jet lag brain falling out of head (meaning no way to touch the overtones now) just lying there inches away like the rotten core of a foam rubber puppet. Sideways on a fakebed shutter darkness all around. Summer heat sneaks...

Jet lag brain falling out of head (meaning no way to touch the overtones now) just lying there inches away like the rotten core of a foam rubber puppet. Sideways on a fakebed shutter darkness all around. Summer heat sneaks...

Government of Darkness spirit drone sending rain and storms over the Kanto region for reasons we cannot ever possibly know. Tokyo Gerotan dash for shelter in every dark and humid corner of the country. The overtones humming beyond the range...

Keiichi Tanaka's gag manga series Minari no Seishun is now available in English as a digital download in the Android Market. My company jaPRESS handled the localization in association with Japanese content entertainment agency Dopamin. As the synopsis puts...

Just another normal day for nine-year-olds like me in the NoCal suburbs...

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Ok, after a long bitter absence, I'm finally going to be flying my space battleship over Tokyo again from 7/13 - 8/6. The main event is a 3 hour seminar on music, fashion, and film I'll be conducting at Meiji...

Original art, as always, by Kazumi Nonaka AKA Batty Cheese.

TokyoScope Vol.5: “Japanese Superheroes”! Friday, July 9th at 7:00pm at VIZ Cinema Hosted by Patrick Macias, August Ragone, and Tomohiro Machiyama Presented by OTAKU USA Ultraman! Kamen Rider! The Power Rangers! These and many other colorful crusaders of justice are...

The time has come to talk about the three-part English subtitled “Perfume – The Introduction” video recently upped to YouTube. While this 30-min “Behind the Music” styled piece, apparently adapted from a 2008 TV special on the rise of Japan’s...

Attention all dirty ducks! Here's a 5:34 min. audio excerpt from last night's TokyoScope Talk Vol. 4 show at New People/Viz Cinema in San Francisco wherein Tomohiro Machiyama talks about the first (and last!) time he snuck into a porn...