Tokyo Art Music Culture

The Mindset That Matters Most for Business Results

Most founders and sole proprietors run into similar problems. The causes are usually very simple, and many of them can be prevented by making what is…

Nov 11 • Tokyo Art Music Culture

Why Japan Has No Gen Z Protests: The Young Who Don’t Believe They Can Change Their Country

Mood and numbers. Japan's young haven't given up on everything — they're stepping away, one at a time.

Nov 10 • Tokyo Art Music Culture

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Prologue: Marketing That Makes a Business Succeed — What It Is, and What to Do

To do marketing that makes a business succeed, you need to understand the concept, at least in outline. This part lays it out in plain terms.

Nov 6 • Tokyo Art Music Culture

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How Fashion Became IP

HUMAN MADE went public. Ramdane Touhami sold one T-shirt a day for twenty-four hours each. Two ways of treating a brand as a right, in Tokyo and Paris…

Nov 2 • Tokyo Art Music Culture

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October 2026

In a Future Without Work, How Will We Judge a Person’s Value?

If AI takes over work, people get to live on roses, not bread. Not everyone will. And we’ll need a new way to measure a person.

Oct 30 • Tokyo Art Music Culture

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Tokyo Ranks 15th Among the World’s Art Cities. Why, and What’s Really Going On?

On a new index of fifty art cities, Tokyo came 15th. The work is made here and sold here, but the price is set somewhere else — and the state’s money is…

Oct 26 • Tokyo Art Music Culture

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Why Japan Calls ChatGPT “Chappy” — and Why AI Doomerism Never Took Root

Japan has plenty of AI anxiety. What it never imported is the story where superintelligence ends us. Three layers: Shinto, disaster-mindedness, and the…

Oct 23 • Tokyo Art Music Culture

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Who Owns a Singer’s Voice After They’re Gone?

Lennon’s voice won a Grammy. SOPHIE’s album was finished by her brother. Three Michael Jackson tracks vanished. Hibari Misora sang by AI. If the family…

Oct 20 • Tokyo Art Music Culture

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September 2026

3 Kinds of DJ, 1 Unusual Crowd: Bodybuilder, Craftsman, Shrine Maiden

Pre-built peak-time sets, Jamaican sound systems, and why Tokyo's anime-song club nights are full of shrine-maiden DJs.

Sep 4 • Tokyo Art Music Culture

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Badly in Love, Light and Dark: The Show That Keeps Us From Seeing Our Own Grotesque

Badly in Love, Light and Dark: The Show That Keeps Us From Seeing Our Own Grotesque Netflix's yankii dating show is a hit. This is about the viewer's…

Sep 3 • Tokyo Art Music Culture

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August 2026

Start Here — Tours, Itineraries, and the Map

Everything Tokyo Art Music Culture offers

Aug 28 • Tokyo Art Music Culture

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Why Everything in Tokyo Tastes Good

A 1,200-year ban, Japan's demanding eaters, and the invisible engineering behind Tokyo's food.

Aug 10 • Tokyo Art Music Culture

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