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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Danielle Demetriou |Momo Ikeda |Kanae Hasegawa |Matt Alt
Credit... Where do Tokyo's best chefs eat tonkatsu and sushi on their days off? Where does the expert organizer Marie Kondo buy her pajamas? We asked 24 Japanese cultural luminaries, including architects, fashion designers and artists, to share the places they love most across the country. The only criterion was that each choice be somewhere they personally and enthusiastically recommend.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
internazionale.it | Matt Alt
Nel 1990 Kyoichi Tsuzuki, all’epoca giovane fotografo giapponese, cominciò a immortalare un lato poco conosciuto della vita domestica di una delle città più densamente popolate al mondo. In tre anni visitò centinaia di appartamenti a Tokyo, fotografando gli spazi di vita di amici, conoscenti ed estranei. Quelle immagini, poi pubblicate in Tokyo style (1993) erano sorprendentemente lontane dal minimalismo rarefatto che il mondo aveva imparato ad aspettarsi dal Giappone.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Matt Alt
In 1990, a young Japanese photographer named Kyoichi Tsuzuki began capturing a rarely seen view of domestic life in one of the world’s most densely populated cities. Over three years, he visited hundreds of Tokyo apartments, photographing the living spaces of friends, acquaintances and strangers. These images, published in Tokyo Style (1993), looked startlingly unlike the rarefied minimalism that the world had come to expect from Japan.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Matt Alt
In 1990, a young Japanese photographer named Kyoichi Tsuzuki began capturing a rarely seen view of domestic life in one of the world’s most densely populated cities. Over three years, he visited hundreds of Tokyo apartments, photographing the living spaces of friends, acquaintances and strangers. These images, eventually published in Tokyo Style (1993), looked startlingly unlike the rarefied minimalism that the world had come to expect from Japan.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Matt Alt
As we prepare to pick our next president, America remains sharply, disconcertingly divided. Yet there is one leader about whom a great many Americans seem to agree. He isn't a politician, an American or even real. His name is Yoshii Toranaga, and he is a fictional warlord from feudal Japan.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
tokyoscope.blog | Matt Alt
You passed on the Lensman soundtrack? You dirty barbarian! How dare you?! I don’t think that ever made it to CD. I would spend too much money buying LPs not so much to play them and rip them to iTunes* but for those beautiful jackets. Among the things I need to buy on my dream trip to Japan is a ton of CDs and some LPs and 45s to fill gaps in my library. I trust Patrick will know the secret places to score these treasures.
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May 31, 2024 | 
tokyoscope.blog | Matt Alt
Oh! Have we got a video? YES WE'VE GOT A VIDEO! In the episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) visit the CHOGOKIN 50th Anniversary exhibition in Akihabara, Tokyo!What is the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast?
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May 29, 2024 | 
blog.pureinventionbook.com | Matt Alt
This week, international media outlets were abuzz with reports of the passing of Kabosu, a Very Good Girl who went to that kennel in the sky on Sunday at the ripe old age of 18. That the death of a family’s pet would warrant global media coverage might surprise. But Kabosu was, and remains, a superstar of the Internet. Some are already hailing her as the Hachiko of the 21st century.
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May 24, 2024 | 
tokyoscope.blog | Matt Alt
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) imbibe at a brewpub in Akihabara, Tokyo and dig into the meaty topic of the use of AI in manga translation and localization!Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.
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May 22, 2024 | 
blog.pureinventionbook.com | Matt Alt
Localization is the art of adapting content for foreign audiences. Translators play a key role in this process. And lately, they can’t seem to catch a break. A small but vocal subset of angry fans want them fired for their supposed liberal biases. (You probably never imagined Fox News taking a stand on Japanese translation, yet here we are.) And the entertainment industry that depends upon the skills of translators to reach paying customers looks to replace them at every turn.
