Tokyo’s Loo With A View
Why can’t we have cyberpunk public commodes? More from Black Pigeon Speaks.
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Call Me Stormy
Finding righteous currents in turbulent times
Archive for the tag “Tokyo”
Shibuya: Tokyo’s Lockdown
Black Pigeon Speaks takes us to the Shibuya district in Tokyo. This is a gritty shopping and commercial district that straddles two of Tokyo’s busiest railroad hubs — the Shibuya Station and the Shinjuku Station. This is a district of great popularity with young people. Here can be found several famous fashion stores as well as Japan’s Internet technology firms. But there are also small walking streets where there are old-school pubs that can only accommodate a few people in tight quarters. This is a walk-though tour.
Tokyo’s Strange Lockdown
On the ground inside Tokyo’s red-light district. It’s the largest such district anywhere in the world. Let’s take a walk-through. More from Black Pigeon Speaks.
Babes of Burlesque: 11
CHERRY TYPHOON
An explosive dynamo, Cherry Typhoon brings an original, high-energy presence to the stage. She grew up in Tokyo, studying traditional Japanese dance forms, but her career really detonated after she embraced burlesque. Tassel twirling up a storm, whether she’s wearing a G-string or a kimono, she has toured widely across Europe and North American, and currently is based out of Montreal, Canada. Here she is at the 2012 Tease-O-Rama in San Francisco.
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Her act Fukagawa, staged last summer at the Theatre St. Catherine in Montreal.
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Her website: http://www.cherrytyphoon.com/Pages/default.aspx
Gay Pride in Lisbon
Black Pigeon Speaks visits a gay pride event in Lisbon. Not half as flamboyant as Sydney. San Francisco or Vancouver, the event is much closer to what Black Pigeon Speaks saw in Tokyo. Is it because the public in Portugal is more circumspect or does the Catholic Church still have some influence across southern Europe?
A new shock poll. Young people are growing much less tolerant toward the LGBT community. Here are several studies that DESTROY the narrative that young voters are more liberal!! More from Dr. Steve Turley.
Sargon of Akkad says the reason for the resistance to the LGBT is simple. If you push anything too hard and in one direction, the pendulum will swing back the opposite direction. More on The Thinkery.
Japanese Candy Art
Since the year 796 A.D., Japan has been fashioning candy art. Here’s a look at a Tokyo shop where the art is fabricated, including a cat, a dog, a frog and a goldfish. More from TravelThirsty.
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Wes Farrell Serenades Gamera
To make Gamera The Invincible a bigger hit in America, the distributors commissioned Wes Farrell to write a theme song for the monster. Who is Wes Farrell? He was one of the Sixties’ biggest songwriters, whose hits included “Hang On Sloopy” as well as other tunes by The Animals and Jay and the Americans. Here, his Gamera song is performed by The Moons as the monster is ravaging Tokyo and closing in on this disco, popular with youth.
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Love is Dwindling in Japan
The once explosive population of post-World War II Japan has made a shocking about-face. The Land of the Rising today owns the fastest negative population growth in the world. Japan is home to most people over the age of 65 and the least under the age of 15 than any country on the planet. The problem: Baby-making has come to a standstill! Instead, the Japanese have turned to other pleasures, such as cuddle cafes, host parties and sexual fetishes. Investigative journalist Ryan Duffy journeyed to Tokyo to dig out the details in this disturbing trend of this edition of “Vice.”
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