Category Archives: Japanese

Anything and everything related to Japanese music, language, diaspora

青い海、青い空 [Blue sea, blue sky]

Looking for help on translating a WWII-era poem by an unknown Japanese soldier who died on Saipan. This poem appears in the American Memorial Park in Saipan today.
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Japan, you’re in my thoughts.

Sending support and thought Japan's way while the nation faces tragedy after tragedy. Also a quick social media supplement on Twitter hashtag use by different populations to distribute news, thoughts, et cetera.
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Friday photo essay on a Tuesday: The best photo you’ve ever taken

Eat Media has a post on simply posting the best photo you’ve ever taken and explaining it. I don’t want to wait until Friday to do this, so here you go — Friday on a Tuesday. Shirahige torii on the waters of Biwako in Shiga-ken, Japan. Taken on: July 1, 2004 at 1.17pm Taken with: [...]
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VAMPS in NYC

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T minus 2 days to Hub on Wheels

Ack, my bike is still not in prime shape and I have a 25-mile ride in two days for the Hub on Wheels! I’m hoping the bicycle fairy will fix my gear shift overnight or something. Somehow I doubt that’s going to happen, so tomorrow I’ll be in the basement with a multi-tool and greasy [...]
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Post amnesia

I’m biking for The Hub On Wheels in two weeks and have been preparing for it. I’m only doing the 25-mile route as I have something to do that afternoon (XKCD meetup!), but I was curious if I am physically capable of biking the full 40-ish mile route. So just for kicks a few weeks [...]
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Gackt’s “Mizérable”: a quick retrospective

Anybody who knows me moderately well also knows that my favorite artist/musician of all time is the Japanese rock/pop star Gackt (yes, whose name sounds a lot like my cat Patches when she’s struggling with a hairball. ) The usual praise for any major artist certainly apply with this guy: he’s talented, charismatic, and entertainment-biz [...]
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Surface view of Yoshiki’s next project: S.K.I.N. (an undertaking of epic J-rock proportions?)

Those of us who follow Japanese rock are all a-twitter over the latest news from Yoshiki (the man! the myth! the legendary J-rocker!) Disclaimer: If you have never heard of Yoshiki or Japanese rock in general, the rest of this post will be utterly confounding. Apologies in advance! Last year at Otakon in Baltimore Yoshiki [...]
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