Idoru (Bridge, #2)

Samurai city - Works in Progress Magazine

For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its warlike samurai elite in the world’s least efficient city.

Japan design details

A long thread about 300 design niceties and nuances in Japan

This 1986 Japanese adventure game showing up on Steam in 2026 guarantees it makes my GOTY list—you've really got to play it

Relics doesn't belong in a museum: it belongs on your PC.

Information and Communications in Japan 2024

Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Drag…

Take a journey through the history of Japanese role-pla…

By the numbers: A look at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan

The Asian Games are often identified as the second most important multisports event after the Summer Olympic Games. They date from the first edition in 1951 in New Delhi, India, and were last held in...

Zork · The Great Underground Empire

Enter the Great Underground Empire. A playable first-person 3D adaptation of Zork I.

Tokyo's Diversity Olympics Dogged by Controversy

Since Tokyo 2020 can't really brag about tackling environmental issues, sustainability, cost cutting, or transparency, by default diversity and inclusiveness have become the branding agenda. This could be a positive legacy, but can the Olympics serve as a catalyst for Japan to reinvent itself? Probably not, due to the patriarchal elite's ethnonationalism and aversion to diversity and inclusion.

Tokyo's Diversity Olympics Dogged by Controversy

Since Tokyo 2020 can't really brag about tackling environmental issues, sustainability, cost cutting, or transparency, by default diversity and inclusiveness have become the branding agenda. This could be a positive legacy, but can the Olympics serve as a catalyst for Japan to reinvent itself? Probably not, due to the patriarchal elite's ethnonationalism and aversion to diversity and inclusion.

Yamanote Line

The Yamanote Line is a railway loop service in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company. It is one of Tokyo's busiest and most important lines, connecting most of Tokyo's major railway stations and commercial and urban centers, including Shinagawa, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Ueno, Tokyo, and the Yūrakuchō and Ginza areas. Twenty-eight of its 30 stations provide connections to other railway or subway lines.

Bridges & The Last Network Effect · augment

A blog by Anuj Ahooja

Before the Window Closes Again

Reza Pahlavi and the missing bridge of Iran’s opposition

Home (Binti, #2)

It’s been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza…

Japan awakes

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