J.B. Spins

You might expect the end of the world would get played up more in the media.  Unfortunately, they only have time to report a few train c...

It is not much of a business, but at least the inventory is cheap.  In fact, Sayoko attracts stray cats like a magnet.  Profits really a...

Kosaku Igami follows the golden rule for novelists.  He writes about what he knows.  In his case, he knows about abandonment and mother ...

If you’re wondering where Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones’ fifty-plus mojo went, it’s been in Japan with Kôji Yakusho.  While Americ...

Japan is the land of the rising Hello Kitty.  Cuteness is a big deal here.  It is all Yukiko Takigawa was ever good at.  However, people...

The end of the world is nigh and it smells like feet.  Mutant fish flatulence is a tough way for humanity to go out, but it looks like o...

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, the city of Sendai could use something to cheer about.  An unassuming burglar could too.  He has ...

Not content with the sarin gas cult and the United Red Amy, transgressive auteur Toshiaki Toyoda has also relocated Ted Kaczynski to Jap...

What do you get when you combine the labors of Hercules with Make Me Laugh in feudal Japan?  A disgraced samurai with a lot of deep bru...

It feels like the 1970’s again, in a good way.  Strutting through the streets of Shimonoseki in a leather coat, slapping about petty thu...

Do not think retro-hipness with regards to this Shinjuku hostess club.  Think more along the lines of the quickly canceled NBC TV show, ...

Never nurtured, a ferocious young beast-child is entirely the product of his environment—a desperate feudal Kyoto where many resort to c...