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Ok. The cat is out of the bag. As I hinted at before, I’m now doing work for Japanese fashion and department store Marui. Here are the details. But first, from Wikipedia…

“Marui Co., Ltd. (株式会社丸井 Kabushiki-gaisha Marui) (TYO: 8252) is a Japanese retail company which operates a chain of department stores in Tokyo. They are best known for their women's fashion and accessories.
In 2003–4 the company generated US$2.75 billion in revenues. Its president is Tadao Aoi.”

Think Japanese street fashion: Harajuku, Shibuya (below), etc.......

By admin at 12/03/2007 - 4:38pm | Culture Review | JAPATTACK News | by Patrick Macias | related items | 1 comment | read more | 1790 reads

Gothic Humberts

March 2006 will see this opening of the first Butler Cafe in Japan. Name: Swallowtail. Location: Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district, in that increasingly well-known hideaway for female otaku known as Otome Road. URL: http://butlers-cafe.jp.

By admin at 01/28/2006 - 3:43am | Culture Review | by Patrick Macias | 2 comments | read more | 2761 reads

Nakareba Narimasen

Oh man. NHK has updated their Ego de Shabera Nighto website with a krazy photo collage of the upcoming episode I'm featured in. It looks like this...
By admin at 12/14/2005 - 9:07pm | Culture Review | JAPATTACK News | by Patrick Macias | add new comment | read more | 4602 reads

Mondo Japan 2005: 10/16 Eiga Hi-Ho 10th Anniversary Ball

It's three in the morning. Everything good and decent is asleep in bed, or certainly should be. Whoever and whatever would disturb the rest of the land seems to be in Shinjuku…
By admin at 11/21/2005 - 1:46am | Culture Review | Film Review | by Patrick Macias | add new comment | read more | 7049 reads

Mondo Tokyo 2005: Loft Plus One: Ichiro Mizuki Talk Live

Sitting behind the table on stage at Loft Plus One is like being at the controls of a very strange spaceship, ...
By admin at 10/31/2005 - 1:58am | Culture Review | by Patrick Macias | related items | 2 comments | read more | 11209 reads

Mondo Winter Tokyo 2002: Mr.Chimatsuri's Model Kit Obsession

Warning: This is not a story merely about old plastic model kits. About how much money they are worth, and the sort of people that collect them.
By admin at 01/27/2003 - 12:31am | Culture Review | by Patrick Macias | related items | 1 comment | read more | 5755 reads

Mondo Winter Tokyo 2001: Akihabara/Electric Town

The office girls cover their mouths, laugh cruelly, and call 'em "Akiba kids," short for "Akihabara kids." It...
By admin at 01/27/2002 - 12:28am | Culture Review | by Patrick Macias | related items | 2 comments | read more | 6099 reads

Mondo Winter Tokyo 2001: Shinjuku History

Not a metaphor. It really does smell like a combination of burnt soy sauce and cigarettes. Take a walk and a whiff...
By admin at 01/27/2002 - 12:27am | Culture Review | by Patrick Macias | related items | 1 comment | read more | 6394 reads

Fisherman in Hokkaido

They are bigger than the boys in SMAP. They command more respect than Seiko Matsuda. They kill porpoises and have...
By admin at 01/30/2001 - 6:03pm | Culture Review | by Patrick Macias | add new comment | read more | 4612 reads
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