“Walking through the workshops surrounding the museum, one can see other craftsmen at work, too — an engraver, a scabbard maker, a sword polisher, and more. Watching them work felt like peering back through the mists of time.”
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Setouchi Reflection Trip – Article “Kojima Jeans Street – Weaving History from the World’s Finest Denim”
“In 1965, the first Japanese jeans, produced by Big John in Kojima, hit stores with smashing success. Soon more Japanese jeans makers joined the fray, and the floundering Okayama textile industry emerged from the shallows with fresh wind in its newly loomed, indigo sails.”
Setouchi Reflection Trip – Article “Kakushi Sushi – Seditious, Nutritious, and Delicious”
“You may be wondering why anyone would go out of their way to make a delicacy engineered to look so underwhelming? The answer, deliciously enough, is rebellion.”
Setouchi Reflection Trip – Article “Hotel Limani – Genuine International Flair in the Heart of Japan”
“As we watched the sunset at last over the shimmering waves of Ushimado, we lost all sense of time and place. Were we travelers along the beautiful Setouchi Sea? Or Mediterranean island hoppers watching the sun sink into the Aegean? Either way—there in that moment, we felt perfectly at home.”
Japan Times – Article “The Atomic Elephant in the Pit”
“Ironically, the subject of the atomic bombing has always existed within the Hiroshima punk scene the same way an irradiated elephant might occupy the slam pit at a bar show — awkwardly, and with a high likelihood of making you spill your drink.”
Japan Times – Article “Hope After the Horror Revealed in Letters from Postwar Hiroshima”
“In 1957, as atomic bomb survivors continued to die mysteriously of unknown causes — and fierce debate raged about whether or not to preserve the artifacts of the bombing (including the Atomic Bomb Dome itself) — Austrian author Robert Jungk, aided by Ogura, set out to discover the true stories of the A-bomb victims.”