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Independant left-wing media institution Zcommunications have a spiffy new site featuring writers such as Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, George Monbiot, Howard Zinn etc…
…one of the great newspapers of the internet, print, and video. You get more in one visit than hours of thumbing through voluminous newspaper voices of rapacious power. The range of [...]

There’s a fresh review up on Deep Kyoto tonight of my very very 一番好きな favoritest bar in the whole wide world: Small Town Talk. There’s a very high possibility that it will close before the end of the year so enjoy it while you can.
Here’s a short reminder from Mario Alfonso about next week’s event [...]

Mario sent me this info on an Intyatyambo event he and some other ex-Lado people have organized up in Tokyo. Looks like it will be a fun night in a good cause so if you are up in Tokyo at the time check it out. Unfortunately I can’t make it myself. I got that work [...]

There’s a fresh review with video of Long Island Cafe up on Deep Kyoto today.
Also, Ueno-san the master of Tsurugi and Reiko the proprieter of Long Island Cafe have both kindly agreed to let me leave Intyatyambo collection boxes on their premises. Here they are showing their support.

I’ve got quite a backlog of reviews still [...]

Having volunteered my services as “fundraising coordinator” for Intyatyambo in Kyoto, I now find myself in the tricky position of having to actually raise some cash. Well, I don’t much fancy standing on a street corner shaking a box and shouting at passersby so I thought I might ask some of the restaraunts and [...]

The Intyatyambo website is up! Check it out here: Intyatyambo

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Kageyama-san suggested taking the Katou sisters out for lunch yesterday, so we did. Here are the self-styled “Soul 兄弟”.

And the Katou sisters. Other than my own, I don’t think I’ve met a nicer bunch of sisters. Look how nice they look.

After which we had a pleasant stroll round Shokokuji (here’s an elephant):

And of course [...]

In the aftermath of Lado Japan’s sad demise, there has been a flurry of contact between former Lado teachers and staff, and I’m pleased to say Udo Bartsch in Cape Town has also been in touch with the wonderful news that he and Humi finally got hitched last January. (Congratulations to you both!) Not only [...]