Philip Brasor
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Japan media watcher, blogger of Japanese housing
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"My Everything" opens tomorrow in Tokyo. bit.ly/4aqZzrB #私のすべて
Review: My Everything
Director Anne-Sophie Bailly piles one melodramatic layer on top of another in her tale about Mona (Laure Calamy), a late middle aged single mother trying to live her life as naturally as she can wh…
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February 12, 2026 at 12:20 AM
"My Everything" opens tomorrow in Tokyo. bit.ly/4aqZzrB #私のすべて
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Soft xenophobia: Japanese govt. not proactive about foreigners learning Japanese language bit.ly/4alTcGb #夜間中学校 #外国人のための日本語教育
Media watch: Government keeps its distance from Japanese language learning for foreigners
Foreigners attending night junior high school (Withnews) In Japan, compulsory education stops after junior high school, and though the vast majority of Japanese people now graduate from high school…
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February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Soft xenophobia: Japanese govt. not proactive about foreigners learning Japanese language bit.ly/4alTcGb #夜間中学校 #外国人のための日本語教育
Soft xenophobia: Japanese govt. not proactive about foreigners learning Japanese language bit.ly/4alTcGb #夜間中学校 #外国人のための日本語教育
Media watch: Government keeps its distance from Japanese language learning for foreigners
Foreigners attending night junior high school (Withnews) In Japan, compulsory education stops after junior high school, and though the vast majority of Japanese people now graduate from high school…
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February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Soft xenophobia: Japanese govt. not proactive about foreigners learning Japanese language bit.ly/4alTcGb #夜間中学校 #外国人のための日本語教育
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This is powerful, deeply moving storytelling. Highly recommended. It asks—and answers—what it *felt* like to grow up in 1960s Japan with a Korean parent, in grinding poverty, while exploring the dark underside of Japan’s so-called economic miracle.
Masako's Story 10: Dinner for one, and other indignities of childhood poverty in 1960s Japan. bit.ly/4qXuX8t #昭和 #貧乏生活
The Little No-Match Girl
Pity is for losers
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February 4, 2026 at 1:06 AM
This is powerful, deeply moving storytelling. Highly recommended. It asks—and answers—what it *felt* like to grow up in 1960s Japan with a Korean parent, in grinding poverty, while exploring the dark underside of Japan’s so-called economic miracle.
Masako's Story 10: Dinner for one, and other indignities of childhood poverty in 1960s Japan. bit.ly/4qXuX8t #昭和 #貧乏生活
The Little No-Match Girl
Pity is for losers
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February 4, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Masako's Story 10: Dinner for one, and other indignities of childhood poverty in 1960s Japan. bit.ly/4qXuX8t #昭和 #貧乏生活
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Rental guarantor companies move to the front lines in the battle between landlords and tenants, taking casualties in the process. bit.ly/4t73jr7 #家賃保証会社
Hazard payments
On Jan. 15, two people were stabbed in front of a rental apartment in Tokyo’s Suginami Ward allegedly by the man who lived in the apartment. The two victims were part of a ten-person group wh…
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February 1, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Rental guarantor companies move to the front lines in the battle between landlords and tenants, taking casualties in the process. bit.ly/4t73jr7 #家賃保証会社
Hot source: Does the Japanese press play fast and loose with off-the-record comments? bit.ly/4kc6RUA #官邸記者クラブ #オフレコ
You don't say | FCCJ
February 2026 | Japan Media Review A controversial ‘nuclear deterrent’ remark has sparked a debate over the Japanese media’s coverage of off-the-record comments Artwork by Julio Shiiki On December 18,
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February 2, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Hot source: Does the Japanese press play fast and loose with off-the-record comments? bit.ly/4kc6RUA #官邸記者クラブ #オフレコ
Rental guarantor companies move to the front lines in the battle between landlords and tenants, taking casualties in the process. bit.ly/4t73jr7 #家賃保証会社
Hazard payments
On Jan. 15, two people were stabbed in front of a rental apartment in Tokyo’s Suginami Ward allegedly by the man who lived in the apartment. The two victims were part of a ten-person group wh…
bit.ly
February 1, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Rental guarantor companies move to the front lines in the battle between landlords and tenants, taking casualties in the process. bit.ly/4t73jr7 #家賃保証会社
"The Running Man" and "Mars Express" open today in Tokyo. bit.ly/4q3gOVJ
@RunningMan_jp
#ランニング・マン
@marsexpress_jp
#マーズ・エクスプレス
@RunningMan_jp
#ランニング・マン
@marsexpress_jp
#マーズ・エクスプレス
Review: The Running Man and Mars Express
There’s something both thrilling and slightly deflating about the continued popularity of Stephen King after a gazillion novels and short stories, most of which have been adapted as films or …
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January 30, 2026 at 12:08 AM
"The Running Man" and "Mars Express" open today in Tokyo. bit.ly/4q3gOVJ
@RunningMan_jp
#ランニング・マン
@marsexpress_jp
#マーズ・エクスプレス
@RunningMan_jp
#ランニング・マン
@marsexpress_jp
#マーズ・エクスプレス
Masako's Story 9: Surviving 3rd grade in 1965 Japan with jokes and an impermeable shell bit.ly/3ZuoZj5 #昭和
Gag reflexes
Fitting in fitfully
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January 26, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Masako's Story 9: Surviving 3rd grade in 1965 Japan with jokes and an impermeable shell bit.ly/3ZuoZj5 #昭和
Everything you wanted to know about earthquake insurance but were afraid to ask. bit.ly/49BCXFV #淡路大震災 #地震保険
Twice bitten
January 17 marked the 31st anniversary of the Hanshin Awaji Earthquake that killed more than 6,000 people and destroyed about 250,000 homes. Every year around this date, various media run stories a…
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January 23, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Everything you wanted to know about earthquake insurance but were afraid to ask. bit.ly/49BCXFV #淡路大震災 #地震保険
"Five Nights at Freddy's 2" opens tomorrow in Tokyo. bit.ly/4r447en #ファイブ・ナイツ・アット・フレディーズ２
Review: Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
The inevitable sequel to the very successful 2023 movie adaptation of the equally popular video game slightly improves on its predecessor in that its storytelling is more abstract. The problem I ha…
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January 22, 2026 at 12:25 AM
"Five Nights at Freddy's 2" opens tomorrow in Tokyo. bit.ly/4r447en #ファイブ・ナイツ・アット・フレディーズ２
"Work to Do" and "About Us But Not About Us" open today in Tokyo. bit.ly/4qqakBk
@worktodo0117
#ただやるべきことを
@Someonesga24545
#アバウトアス・バット・ノット・アバウトアス
@worktodo0117
#ただやるべきことを
@Someonesga24545
#アバウトアス・バット・ノット・アバウトアス
Review: Work to Do and About Us But Not About Us
The dramatic tension generated in Park Hong-jun’s debut feature, Work to Do, comes from an unusual place. The time is 2016 and the protagonist is Kang Joon-hee (Jang Sung-bum), a young employ…
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January 17, 2026 at 12:13 AM
"Work to Do" and "About Us But Not About Us" open today in Tokyo. bit.ly/4qqakBk
@worktodo0117
#ただやるべきことを
@Someonesga24545
#アバウトアス・バット・ノット・アバウトアス
@worktodo0117
#ただやるべきことを
@Someonesga24545
#アバウトアス・バット・ノット・アバウトアス
"28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" opens today in Tokyo. bit.ly/45V4AqW #28年後白骨の神殿
Review: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
With Danny Boyle taking time out from the 28 Days Later series for the second time, it’s up to original screenwriter Alex Garland to provide thematic continuity with this fourth installment, …
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January 15, 2026 at 10:49 PM
"28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" opens today in Tokyo. bit.ly/45V4AqW #28年後白骨の神殿
Masako's story 8: new school, new jobs, new clothes, and with them new worries bit.ly/4jMqT8i #昭和
New school blues
…and purples and yellows and browns
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January 15, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Masako's story 8: new school, new jobs, new clothes, and with them new worries bit.ly/4jMqT8i #昭和
"Warfare" opens Friday in Tokyo. bit.ly/4jE7ztN #ウォーフェア戦地最前線
Review: Warfare
For all its narrative shortcomings, Platoon remains a hallmark of warfare cinema in that it left little to the imagination. War movies have since become almost rote in their presentation of carnage…
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January 14, 2026 at 2:57 AM
"Warfare" opens Friday in Tokyo. bit.ly/4jE7ztN #ウォーフェア戦地最前線
