kontextmaschine:

Something American urbanist praise of Japanese real estate development forms needs to grapple with is that the call for frequent construction and demolition is leveraged to sustain a small construction work sector as a sink for the would-be underclass, almost in place of a welfare system “floor”. (This interestingly means construction labor is often articulated with organized crime, but in a manner completely different from how it is in the US)

I mean given the postwar American administrative order the occupation authorities were almost certainly getting reports from labor economists on the distinctions with the New York and Italian systems at the time

Something American urbanist praise of Japanese real estate development forms needs to grapple with is that the call for frequent construction and demolition is leveraged to sustain a small construction work sector as a sink for the would-be underclass, almost in place of a welfare system “floor”. (This interestingly means construction labor is often articulated with organized crime, but in a manner completely different from how it is in the US)

xenosagaepisodeone:

a dumb throwaway seasonal anime being a dumb throwaway seasonal anime doesn’t mean it’s above criticism (even if being dumb is “the point”), but I feel as if the 5 hours that paid(?) contributors for a blog titled Anime Feminist spent watching a series called Onimai: My Older Brother is Now My Sister⁉️ would have been better used watching something more ambitious

wanokokoro-japan:

Genko-an Temple (Kyoto,JAPAN)

Summer/Fall/Winter

I always used to think the Pixies song was “Wave of New Religion”, which is I guess a shinshūkyō-themed filk

max1461:

jaubaius:

Time to go home

Source

鳥居の真ん中を通って、やっぱり神っていうわけ

etherea1ity:

Azumino, Japan ( via )

That 曇野 do be 安

anamon-book:

BURST HIGH vol.7
BURST 2004年5月号増刊［バースト・ハイ］
コアマガジン

You know I don’t think I’ve ever seen a depiction of someone living on the first floor of one of those Japanese 2-story cheap apartment buildings, you know, perpendicular to the street with an exterior walkway for a hall?

ldstr:

expressions-of-nature:

Tateyama Mountains, Japan by Teruhide Tomori

Thinking about the Japanese holdouts and kamikaze and banzai charges and what amazing fucking morale Japan must have had in WWII

paper-mario-wiki:

i still think its so funny that someone walked up to a world leader in the street with a gun made of duct tape and PVC pipes and batteries and killed him in front of a crowd of people and in the following months everyone in the country was like “wait yeah he had a point”

Uh, anyone know what that crossbeam in a Japanese house where you display a portrait of your dead father is called?

It’s so funny seeing all the Japanese “New Religions” attempting to make sense of the post-WWII world with diagonal overheard takes on Western philosophy, religion, science, and psychology arranged in ways no Westerner would think to, (while often really being a tool for the guru to draw followers to extract money, sex, or political power from) and realizing the vice-versa equivalent was Buddhism

thefloatingstone:

darthmaulscatgirl:

thefloatingstone:

brucebocchi:

This came as a result of Light Novel publishers believing that people don’t read the blurbs on the back of the books. So their answer to this was to…. make the blurb the title.

Despite this, however, Light novels with overly long titles have very rarely topped in the best sellers, as the books that sell still tend to sell the best are ones with more traditional short titles.

So of course this trend has no bled over into manga as well because if something bullshit insane marketing scheme is proven to have no real effect other than to confuse and frustrate its consumer you gotta spread that shit to EVERYTHING.

i refuse to believe that image is a title

i cannot read it but it looks like a whole paragraph

Oh this is just the first page.

This Light novel is 196 pages long except it’s literally just the title.

This is modern art.

shieldfoss:

sapphiresonstrings:

gender-trash:

the LAW OF CONSERVATION OF BANDITS strikes again… put this one up there in “recurring historical patterns” right next to the Tyranny of the Horse Equation.

What’s the Law of Conservation of Bandits?

If you have a raider problem

And you raise an army to kill them

and then you disband your army

now you have a raider problem

shuttershocky-deactivated202512:

Hmmm how would this background lore score on Blizzard’s ethnicity chart

The thing is, a letter between two Japanese characters probably would be distinctly Japanese, but in ways they don’t even know. Like, it would open with the author alluding to the seasonal weather.