The prescience is amazing

🚨Great news 📰!! The award-winning #BlackBoxDiaries by Shiori Ito will finally screen in Japan on Dec 12—stay tuned for details. 🕵️ The film tracks Ito’s investigation into her own assault, exposing how the justice system failed survivors and spurred legal reform.

Roland Barthes, from 'S/Z'

Thanks to our wonderful speakers - Ian Haywood, Mayu Koike, Taylor Mignon, and Mariko Nagai - for their wonderful presentations at Tokyo Humanities Cafe 23. We will be back in a few months!

Japanese poster for Suspiria, 1977

🚨🧑🏻‍🔬 BROKEN A coalition of Japan’s right wing has decided to make Sanae Takaichi Japan’s new prime minister. It’s not progress; it’s a disaster. Because she’s not a break from the past—she’s its embodiment. Takaichi is corrupt, authoritarian, and openly hostile to the press and

Photo from the 1975 soccer match between the crews of Pasolini’s SALO and Bertolucci’s 1900.

「日本人ファースト」とは、結局のところ日本人以外をセカンド、サードと、序列や格差をつけることを意味します。 それは明確な差別です。 人間にファーストもセカンドもありません。 どうか批判の矛先を間違えないで。あなたの抱える苦しさは、外国人のせいではありません。 #大阪NOHATE街宣

マユコさんの英語でのスピーチ。 翻訳は私がやったので間違ってたらすんません。 （行を合わせるの、難しい笑） #大阪NOHATE街宣 #デマと差別を許さない街宣

My fab colleague @SharonRuston on Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein:

明治―エディンバラ・フランケンシュタイン・シンポジウム 2025年10月18日（土）に開催いたします。 詳細につきましては、ポスターおよび以下のサイトをご覧ください： https://t.co/NeYlzhMyyS

Please come to the Meiji-Edinburgh Frankenstein Symposium Saturday 18 October 2025. For details, please see poster and https://t.co/NeYlzhMyyS.

Want to take a minute to wrap up my thoughts about Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) being at BeyondFest in Los Angeles last week. Meiko did 3 Q&A sessions and 5 of her movies were screened across 3 nights, October 2, 3 and 4. (Pictured here is a scan of the BeyondFest card for Meiko) 1/

"We must not tolerate narrow-minded xenophobic Nationalism" Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has attacked Sanae Takaichi & Sanseitō in his 80th anniversary since end of WW ll speech.

"Battle Royale" actor and left-wing populist Reiwa party leader Taro Yamamoto tried to climb over lawmakers to stop the passing of an anti-refugee law through Japan's Upper House (via @mrjeffu)

Why has the ruling party’s decision to make Sanae Takaichi Japan’s new prime minister been such a disaster? Because she’s not a break from the past—she’s its embodiment. Takaichi is corrupt, authoritarian, and openly hostile to the press and minorities. She’s a symbol of

外国人へのヘイトクライムが急増しているが、「外国人が悪い」「優遇されている」などというデマはSNSが増幅している。一方的な情報を鵜呑みにして、「真実に目覚めた」と息巻き、ヘイトに加勢する姿は実に醜い。いかに情報技術が進歩しようと、関東大震災直後の朝鮮人虐殺から何も変わっていない。

Hate crimes against foreigners are on the rise, but social media keeps fanning the flames with lies — that “foreigners are to blame,” or that they’re being “given special treatment.” People swallow these one-sided stories whole and think they’ve “woken up to the truth,” when all

"Down with Takaichi!" ― A protest took place in Tokyo today against the soon-to-be-launched far-right coalition government as Japan is set to appoint its first female Prime Minister. Some protesters flew Palestinian flags as a symbol of resistance.

Great interview and interesting to find out Eno loves London Review of Books!