Finn Burton
My favourite part of paperwork Japanese bureaucracy is not generally a source of entertainment and fun. More like a source of soul destroying paperwork which requires you to fill in your address sixteen times and ...
American Inspired Horror The spookiest festival of the year is just around the corner, sneaking ever closer. Perhaps you’ve been preparing for Halloween with horror movies, pumpkins, and by putting a lot of effort into ...
Forget Cool Japan, this is Scary Japan! Zombies, vampires, ghosts and werewolves are the mysterious creatures we love to fear, but just like Halloween itself they’re not native to Japan, inspired by and shipped over ...
Army of Mascots The UK may have some quirky mascots when it comes to national football clubs, but the variety and number is nothing compared to the plethora of cute and cuddly characters which Japan ...
The Talent behind One Piece As the creator behind the hugely successful ‘One Piece’ franchise, Eiichiro Oda is a name well known to millions of anime and manga fans around the world. Since the first ...
The collection returns to the capital The National Art Center in Tokyo is currently hosting one of the year’s best exhibitions of Japanese pop culture, ‘Manga Toshi Tokyo’, which returns after an excellent reception at ...
Attractions for Locals Tokyo is home to a huge number of tourist attractions. Carefully maintained traditional buildings like the resplendent Buddhist temple Meiji-jingu in Harajuku and the Imperial Palace have long been iconic images of ...
An Unconventional City Escape Is it strange that my favourite places in Tokyo are often graveyards? The hyper urban environment and working life of Japan’s capital can really put pressure on those living in the ...
Urban Artwork Sometime around the mid 80’s Japan came up with a creative method of drawing in some more local tourism and adding a little more colour to city streets. Local governments started to take ...
Working Towards The Future Japan’s decreasing population has famously led to tricky problems for the country, not least of which is the growing shortage of workers for basic labour. Not having enough staff to work ...
