Blogs in July 2025

Fishnets and Fire-eating A True Story 2nd July 2025

This amusing, true story tells the tale of four young, professional dancers who travel to the island of Hokkaido, an area steeped in mystery, myths and legendary beasts. When the quartet discovers that they are living next door to...

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For Fukui’s Sake: Two years in rural Japan 2nd July 2025

Far from the high-tech, high-rise of the super-cities, there lies another Japan. A Japan where snakes slither down school corridors, where bears prowl dark forests and where Westerners are still regarded as curious creatures. Welcome to the world of...

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How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart 1st June 2025

20-something and uncertain about her future, Florentyna Leow is exhilarated when an old acquaintance offers her an opportunity for work and cohabitation in a little house in the hills of Kyoto. Florentyna begins a new job as a tour...

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Kakigori Summer 27th May 2025

Sisters Rei, Kiki and Ai have always had to look out for one another – but life has taken them on very different paths. Eldest daughter Rei is spiky and sensible, distracting herself with an all-consuming job at a...

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Sympathy Tower Tokyo 23rd May 2025

Welcome to the Japan of tomorrow. Here, the practice of a radical sympathy toward criminals has become the norm and a grand skyscraper in the heart of Tokyo is planned to house wrongdoers in compassionate comfort – Sympathy Tower...

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