Tokyo Correspondence
Notes from a writer beyond the headlines
Friday, September 28, 2007
Virtual worlds
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As though we weren't busy enough dealing with reality, welcome to the virtual world. We are about to get a whole range of cyberworlds...
Monday, September 24, 2007
Jazz transcends boundaries
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Caravan, Easy Money, All of Me, Moonlight Serenade ....... Drummer Takayoshi Tanaka is realizing a longtime dream in leading a Big Band. Mo...
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Sony delays virtual world, shows rumble controller
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It was his first big speech as head of Sony's game business, but the news Kazuo Hirai gave us was the delay of "Home." He ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Japanese politics
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Joichi Ito's opinion piece in The New York Times today was a truly enjoyable piece of bicultural (Japan/U.S.) writing. To appreciate i...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Sociology of shampoo 2
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Shiseido didn't have much of a new twist to its marketing campaign for its new white version of the now red Tsubaki shampoo. The sha...
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Letter From North Korea
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I've been to North Korea only twice _ in 2002, as part of the press with then Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, and with th...
Friday, September 14, 2007
Microsoft's Xbox 360
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The Xbox 360 event was video show after video show of games in the works for the machine that's losing out big time to Nintendo's ...
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