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March 20, 2023March 21, 2023 Clark Parker

The floating world of floating logs: the kiba of Koto-ku

March 9, 2023March 9, 2023 Clark Parker

Tokyo then-and-now: Gotanda swimming pool (1957)

February 10, 2023February 14, 2023 Clark Parker

Have ukulele, will travel: notes on the Haida 灰田 family

February 23, 2020March 2, 2023 Clark Parker

Tokyo, 2010 (part 1: Dojunkai 同潤会)

May 11, 2019February 24, 2023 Clark Parker

Tsukiji Market, R.I.P. (goodbye to the curve)

January 14, 2019March 20, 2023 Clark Parker

Omori Nori: now you seaweed, now you don’t

May 5, 2018March 15, 2023 Clark Parker

Canals of the Ginza: floating through time on Tokyo’s central waterways 東京江戸「水の都」

December 3, 2017March 10, 2023 Clark Parker

Ikebukuro’s yami-ichi (post-war black market), in miniature

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A walk in the sex park: Yoshiwara and the Tokyo bordello
Tokyo neighborhood map 東京地区地図
The floating world of floating logs: the kiba of Koto-ku
Occupied Japan: The Kokura incident, "committing excesses", and murder on the 4th of July 「黒地の絵」
"House NA", Tokyo's hide-and-go-see-through glass house (House NA 住所)
Tokyo Museum Map 東京美術館マップ
Fear and loathing in Roka-koen: the unnecessary fences of gated communities in Japan 日本のゲーテッドコミュニティ (and some danchi history)
An illustrated glossary of Tokyo's bike parking 東京の駐輪場 (Chūrinjō)
Removing what isn't there (how to find the works of Sou Fujimoto) 「場所藤本壮介-house」
Audrey Hepburn stalks Japan オードリー・ヘップバーン、ストーカー

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