Finished this for my #lastminute2025resolutions ;)
PEACE AMONG US
🖼️ #CC0 #PublicDomain of course, by https://madeindex.org ❤️
#Peace #HappyNewYear #Friends #Humanity #Love #Unite #Design #Graphic #friends #GraphicDesign #Art #public #free #world #message #celebrate #tokyo #celebration #year2025 #year2026 #friendship #goodvibes #unity #pacifism #earth #everyone #people
Despite many clues left at the scene, police are still desperately searching for whoever is behind the brutal murder of a family of four in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward 25 years ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/japan/crime-legal/setagaya-murder-search/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #tokyo #setagaya #japanesepolice #stabbings
Craftspeople say tatami must be redefined, noting that traditional methods of tatami-making could vanish within five years if the decline continues at its current pace. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/30/companies/tatami-foreign-clients/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #tokyo #maff #kumamoto #japanesecrafts
A woman was stabbed in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Monday, with police searching for the suspect, according to investigative sources. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/japan/crime-legal/woman-stabbed-shinjuku/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #tokyo #shinjuku #stabbings
Japan is set to begin another round of screening for locations seeking to develop integrated resorts including casinos, following Osaka’s approval in 2023. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/japan/new-casino-resort-site-selection/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #casinos #tourism #osaka #hokkaido #tokyo #localgovernment
📣 New Podcast! "29 December 1968: Tokyo exams cancelled" on @Spreaker #history #japan #tokyo
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/29-december-1968-tokyo-exams-cancelled--68813163
My friend @bigkamo makes amazing videos.
Here is his latest behind the scenes where he directs a street scene in Tokyo.
A 27-year-old man found dead in an apartment in Tokyo’s Nerima Ward on Monday is believed to have been in a relationship with a woman who died in an apparent murder-suicide three days earlier. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/26/japan/crime-legal/tokyo-murder-suicide/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #tokyo #japanesepolice #nishitokyo #suicide
Tokyo’s inflation cooled more than expected as pressures from food and energy prices faded, triggering yen weakness on bets the Bank of Japan may delay the timing of its next interest rate hike. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/26/economy/tokyo-inflation-december/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #tokyo #inflation #japaneseeconomy #food #internalaffairsministry #boj
Tokyo police searched locations linked to a luxury sauna facility operator on Thursday on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in the deaths of two customers earlier this month. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/26/japan/crime-legal/luxury-sauna-operator-raided/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #tokyo #akasaka #sauna
@thejapantimes #Japan is generally highly efficient so why did it take #Tokyo #police all ten days before they conducted a raid of the errant sauna where two innocent lives were lost on December 15th?🤔
Tokyo police searched locations linked to a luxury sauna facility operator on Thursday on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in the deaths of two customers earlier this month. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/26/japan/crime-legal/luxury-sauna-operator-raided/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #tokyo #akasaka #sauna
A Thai girl who had been forced to perform sexual services at a massage parlor in Tokyo is expected to soon be returned to her home country, where she is to live in a local support facility, according to media reports. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/24/japan/crime-legal/thai-girl-massage-return/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #thailand #taiwan #japanesepolice #sexcrimes #children #humantrafficking #childabuse #thailandjapanrelations #tokyo
We’re en route to Heathrow to stay at the airport hotel before tomorrow morning’s flight to #Tokyo. ✈️
(Honestly, mute me now if you’re not keen on millions of gushing posts about this trip. Excitement levels are high and I’m not even on the plane yet!!)
In a first, Tokyo has surpassed New York to come in second in the Global Power City Index, which ranks cities according to their ability to draw in people, enterprise and capital. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/17/japan/society/tokyo-global-power-index/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #cities #fukuoka #globalpowercityindex #japaneseeconomy #osaka #surveys #tokyo
How GenAI is taking true fans activity – and creativity – to the next level
Walled Culture has written a number of times about the true fans approach – the idea that creators can be supported directly and effectively by the people who love their work. As Walled Culture the book explains (available as a free ebook), one of the earliest and best expositions of the concept came from Kevin Kelly, former Executive Editor at Wired magazine, in an essay he wrote originally […]
#ai #creativity #disney #ecosystem #fanArt #fanfic #genai #kevinKelly #london #madrid #midiaResearch #newYork #openai #sora #tokyo #trueFans #universalMusicGroup
https://walledculture.org/how-genai-is-taking-true-fans-activity-and-creativity-to-the-next-level/
Two people found dead after a fire at a sauna facility in Tokyo’s Akasaka district on Monday may have been trapped as a result of a broken door, according to investigative sources. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/17/japan/crime-legal/akasaka-sauna-deaths/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #sauna #tokyo #akasaka
Panda fans are braving hourslong lines at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo to catch one last glimpse of Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei ahead of their return to China in January. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/16/japan/ueno-zoo-pandas/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #chinajapanrelations #china #pandas #ueno #tokyo #animals #zoos #uenozoo
Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, the two remaining pandas in Japan, are expected to be returned to China by the end of January amid heightened tensions between the two countries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/15/japan/japan-pandas-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #chinajapanrelations #china #pandas #ueno #tokyo
The Tsukiji Outer Market, a popular tourist spot in Tokyo, has issued a request this month asking tour operators to refrain from guiding tourists there toward the end of the year to ease congestion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/15/japan/society/tsukiji-market-yearend-crowds/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #tsukiji #tokyo #tourism #toyosu
Four shots from Kōenji (高円寺) in western Tokyo. A very interesting area to walk around and discover novel shops and unique eateries.
All photos shot with Mamiya 6 and 50mm f/4 lens on Kodak Portra 400 medium-format film.
#photography #mamiya #mediumformat #filmphotography #tokyo #japan #koenji
