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Legal Storyteller
@bohemianslaw.bsky.social
Lawyer / Univ. Lecturer in Japan / Humanizing the law through stories (fiction, music, photography) / #NovelBohemians /米国弁護士 / 大学教員 / ライター / 法 x 物語 x 教育 #東大は誰のものか
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I think back to my amazing mock trial team—teenagers who helped me in so many ways, from editing videos to curating background music.

One of them is now a medical student here at #UTokyo
Over lattes, we’re reunited—this time preparing for a medical ethics mock trial.

#photography
#academicsky
December 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The weekend has begun in Osaka, Japan

#photography #japan
#streetphotography
December 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I linger on the memory of a summer that fled too soon.

#photography #photo
#poetry
December 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
GenZ in Japan (and beyond): scrolling, sighing—quietly asking why belonging costs so much.

#Photography #GenZ #Japan
#StreetPhotography #poet
December 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Law doesn’t live in textbooks—it breathes in the choices, regrets, and resilience of real lives.

That’s why I call myself a legal storyteller.

#academicsky #law #lawyer
December 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Japan’s “Bookstore Kingdom”

#photography #tokyo
#streetphotography
December 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
At 9:03 p.m., the night is young here in Ginza, Japan.

#photography #tokyo
#streetphotography
December 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Saturday night at a book cafe in Osaka, Japan

#photography #photo
#blueskyartshow
December 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In this city of skyscrapers,
I find peace in the gentle hour of returning home.

#Japan #photography
#streetphotography
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
At an unmanned station in a Japanese country town

#photography
#streetphotography
December 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
December 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Chinatown in Kobe, Japan

#photography
#streetphotography
December 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Holiday season in Tokyo

#photography #japan
#streetphotography
December 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
#UTokyo campus in late autumn colors

#photography #japan
#naturephotography
December 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Holiday season in the heart of Tokyo

#photography #japan
#streetphotography
December 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
December morning in the outskirts of Tokyo

#photography #japan
#blueskyartshow
December 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Two teens reunite as adults on opposite ends of privilege, confronting the invisible inequalities within Japan’s elite university admissions.

(“Todai” below = #UTokyo )

#東大は誰のものか
#academicsky
#photography #japan
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Who gets to define Bach?

Maybe a “net refugee” living in a closet-sized booth at an internet café.
Maybe a tavern worker who smiles at her baby’s photo between shifts.
Maybe a teen in a secondhand uniform, practicing violin in a factory town.

They’re all characters from my novel.

#photography
December 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Holiday market in Tokyo

#photography #japan
#streetphotography
December 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Friendship fractured by exams, poverty, and the myth of fairness.

My new novel is an unfinished duet of two uniformed teens—aspiring civil rights lawyers aiming for this university, #UTokyo

#photography
#streetphotography
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Kitchenware store in the outskirts of Tokyo

#photography
#streetphotography #japan
December 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Changing room at an old public bathhouse in Tokyo

#photography
#streetphotography
December 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Holiday season in Tokyo

#photography
#streetphotography
December 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Holiday season in Tokyo

#photography
#streetphotography
December 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM