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💙 Kon'nichiwa, yōkoso! 💙
🌺 Aloha from Hawai’i! 🇺🇸
📷 Pics and Tips from Japan 🇯🇵
❤️ Hawai’i loves Japan! ❤️
✈️ It’s HOLOHOLO time! ⏰
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💙 Kon'nichiwa, yōkoso! 💙
🌺 Aloha from Hawai’i! 🇺🇸
📷 Pics and Tips from Japan 🇯🇵
❤️ Hawai’i loves Japan! ❤️
✈️ It’s HOLOHOLO time! ⏰
😻 cat lover
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Weapons of mass beautification 💄💋 #nakanosunmallshotengai #tokyo
July 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Weapons of mass beautification 💄💋 #nakanosunmallshotengai #tokyo
Happy Solstice, friends!
🥤THE SOLSTICE🌞
'Geshi' (夏至), the 'summer solstice', marks a period of purification in Japan.
Now that the first half of the year has passed thanks are given, and prayers made that the second half (beginning with fiercely hot months) will be healthy and misfortune free.
#Japan #夏至 #summersolstice
'Geshi' (夏至), the 'summer solstice', marks a period of purification in Japan.
Now that the first half of the year has passed thanks are given, and prayers made that the second half (beginning with fiercely hot months) will be healthy and misfortune free.
#Japan #夏至 #summersolstice
June 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Happy Solstice, friends!
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Maui, wonderful article about today’s event. Matthew Thayer wrote it. He’s an amazing photojournalist! Please check it out. www.matthewthayermagazine.com/stories-and-...
‘No Kings’ rally draws large crowd to Kahului — Maui Photojournalism Magazine
By MATTHEW THAYER A crowd of about 4,000 protestors, many of them waving signs taking President Donald Trump to task, lined Kaahumanu Avenue i...
www.matthewthayermagazine.com
June 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Maui, wonderful article about today’s event. Matthew Thayer wrote it. He’s an amazing photojournalist! Please check it out. www.matthewthayermagazine.com/stories-and-...
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Over 4,000 of us on Maui! We did it!! Some are saying 4.200! We were all angry, but full of love. NO DICTATORS MAUI PROTEST on June 14, 2025 at the Queen Ka’ahumanu.
@hawaiinewsnow.com @gshawaii.bsky.social @50501hi.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
@hawaiinewsnow.com @gshawaii.bsky.social @50501hi.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Over 4,000 of us on Maui! We did it!! Some are saying 4.200! We were all angry, but full of love. NO DICTATORS MAUI PROTEST on June 14, 2025 at the Queen Ka’ahumanu.
@hawaiinewsnow.com @gshawaii.bsky.social @50501hi.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
@hawaiinewsnow.com @gshawaii.bsky.social @50501hi.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
Today’s peaceful No Kings Protest on Maui!
June 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Today’s peaceful No Kings Protest on Maui!
Happy AANHPI Heritage Month! 🌺📚
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Celebrate with some of RJL's favorite Japanese American authors.
(Consider purchasing through an Asian American owned bookstore like Yu and Me Books, link on the Bookshop page.)
(Consider purchasing through an Asian American owned bookstore like Yu and Me Books, link on the Bookshop page.)
Celebrate AANHPI Heritage Month: Books by Japanese Americans
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Celebrate with RJL and these books by Japanese Americans.
bookshop.org
May 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Happy AANHPI Heritage Month! 🌺📚
May 9 Happy!
Super cute boutique located on a tree-lined street in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo.
Super cute boutique located on a tree-lined street in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo.
May 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
May 9 Happy!
Super cute boutique located on a tree-lined street in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo.
Super cute boutique located on a tree-lined street in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo.
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The best time to ditch Duolingo was yesterday. The second-best time is today, especially since the company is tripling down on AI slop. We laid out a game plan for how to offload the owl and become fluent in Japanese below:
buff.ly/qQEIDH2
#japanese
buff.ly/qQEIDH2
#japanese
How to Ditch Duolingo and Actually Learn Japanese - Unseen Japan
Want an alternative to Duolingo now that they're firing workers and resorting to AI slop? Here's a much better way to study Japanese.
unseen-japan.com
May 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The best time to ditch Duolingo was yesterday. The second-best time is today, especially since the company is tripling down on AI slop. We laid out a game plan for how to offload the owl and become fluent in Japanese below:
buff.ly/qQEIDH2
#japanese
buff.ly/qQEIDH2
#japanese
‘Tis the season! 🐰🐇
Just spotted these adorable Easter friends at 7-Eleven! The cutest chick and bunny cake treats that are almost too kawaii to eat... almost! 🐥🐰
April 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
‘Tis the season! 🐰🐇
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Read more about Yokomizo Seishi and other Japanese mystery writers (who aren't Higashino Keigo) that you can read in English:
buff.ly/gLU3RgN
buff.ly/gLU3RgN
Five Great Japanese Mystery Writers (Who Aren't Higashino Keigo) - Unseen Japan
Like Higashino Keigo? Want to enjoy more Japanese mystery writers? Check out these five others whose works are available in English.
buff.ly
April 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Read more about Yokomizo Seishi and other Japanese mystery writers (who aren't Higashino Keigo) that you can read in English:
buff.ly/gLU3RgN
buff.ly/gLU3RgN
March 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
March 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
😎 vibes at DUG Kissaten in Shinjuku. ☕️ Love the giant coffee siphon!
#dug
#jazzkissaten
#coffee
#shinjuku
#tokyo
#dug
#jazzkissaten
#coffee
#shinjuku
#tokyo
March 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
😎 vibes at DUG Kissaten in Shinjuku. ☕️ Love the giant coffee siphon!
#dug
#jazzkissaten
#coffee
#shinjuku
#tokyo
#dug
#jazzkissaten
#coffee
#shinjuku
#tokyo
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Happy N American release day to Shusaku Endo's Portraits of a Mother: A Novella and Stories (trans Van C. Gessel).
A salient and curious theme in Endo's work is the unique image of a maternal God + sense of loss and longing for maternal love.
(Ebook in the UK+ today. Physical release next month.)
A salient and curious theme in Endo's work is the unique image of a maternal God + sense of loss and longing for maternal love.
(Ebook in the UK+ today. Physical release next month.)
Portraits of a Mother: A Novella and Stories
A Novella and Stories
bookshop.org
March 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Happy N American release day to Shusaku Endo's Portraits of a Mother: A Novella and Stories (trans Van C. Gessel).
A salient and curious theme in Endo's work is the unique image of a maternal God + sense of loss and longing for maternal love.
(Ebook in the UK+ today. Physical release next month.)
A salient and curious theme in Endo's work is the unique image of a maternal God + sense of loss and longing for maternal love.
(Ebook in the UK+ today. Physical release next month.)
Tokyo-based band MUSTANG JERX late 2024 at Bush Bash in Koiwa. 🔥 Take No Prisoners Power trio! Cannot wait to see them again. Be on the 👀 for this band. HIGHLY recommended. Check ‘em out on youtube. Short video here - wish I had recorded the entire show. #mustangjerx #tokyolivemusic #tokyo #japan
March 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Tokyo-based band MUSTANG JERX late 2024 at Bush Bash in Koiwa. 🔥 Take No Prisoners Power trio! Cannot wait to see them again. Be on the 👀 for this band. HIGHLY recommended. Check ‘em out on youtube. Short video here - wish I had recorded the entire show. #mustangjerx #tokyolivemusic #tokyo #japan
Friends Mi and Saho of the Tokyo-based band Twingroup known as TWINKLOOP. Video from their show at Asagaya Ten, November 2024. 🔥 Fun rockin’ garage punk band - Go see them! 🎸🥁 Check tokyogigguide for upcoming shows. #twingroup #twinkloop #tokyolivemusic #tokyolive #asagayaten #tokyo #japanbands
March 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Friends Mi and Saho of the Tokyo-based band Twingroup known as TWINKLOOP. Video from their show at Asagaya Ten, November 2024. 🔥 Fun rockin’ garage punk band - Go see them! 🎸🥁 Check tokyogigguide for upcoming shows. #twingroup #twinkloop #tokyolivemusic #tokyolive #asagayaten #tokyo #japanbands
Did you know there’s an accordion shop in Tokyo? Taniguchi Gakko is located in Kandasurugadai. While playing a rhinestone-decorated Bugari Armando just for fun, a customer danced around the shop while the company president was meeting with a sales rep. Too much fun! I’ll be back. #accordion #tokyo
March 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Did you know there’s an accordion shop in Tokyo? Taniguchi Gakko is located in Kandasurugadai. While playing a rhinestone-decorated Bugari Armando just for fun, a customer danced around the shop while the company president was meeting with a sales rep. Too much fun! I’ll be back. #accordion #tokyo
Two guys just chatting. Give it a listen. 🎧 Politics free (at least this episode which was refreshing) #tokyofreshpodcast
Hosts are Jordan @afroinjapan.bsky.social and David.
www.youtube.com/live/u093MFJ...
Hosts are Jordan @afroinjapan.bsky.social and David.
www.youtube.com/live/u093MFJ...
This Week In Tokyo March 8th.2025 // Tokyo Fresh Podcast
YouTube video by TokyoFreshPodcast
www.youtube.com
March 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Two guys just chatting. Give it a listen. 🎧 Politics free (at least this episode which was refreshing) #tokyofreshpodcast
Hosts are Jordan @afroinjapan.bsky.social and David.
www.youtube.com/live/u093MFJ...
Hosts are Jordan @afroinjapan.bsky.social and David.
www.youtube.com/live/u093MFJ...
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If you love all things Japan, you’ll love Unseen Japan! #japan #unseenjapan
Wow - we're almost at 20K here. Thanks for helping us make Bluesky our new home. Repost this to help us reach our next milestone!
Since we just hit 15K here - welcome to all newcomers! Unseen Japan is a small group of translator/journalist/scholars whose work, based in original Japanese sources, shows how the country's culture is growing and evolving over time. Here's a rundown of some of our more popular articles.
February 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
If you love all things Japan, you’ll love Unseen Japan! #japan #unseenjapan