Yuki’s kakashi scarecrow village
“Scarecrow (kakashi) villages” around Japan, mostly notably Nagoro in Shikoku, been getting a fair bit of attention on the world
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Goto Izumi’s Deep Hiroshima
Hiroshima “Counterculture” Haro
In the third part of Goto Izumi’s search for a Hiroshima counterculture she visits the studio of her own cultural
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Hiroshima “Counterculture” [nuttsuponchon]
Goto Izumi heads to Onomichi in the second leg of her search of a local counterculture. [日本語]
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Hiroshima “Counterculture” Zetsumetsukigushu
Goto Izumi heads to Osuga’s “Eki Nishi” ditrict in search of a Hiroshima counterculture.
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Searching for Hiroshima “counterculture”
Goto Izumi goes in pursuit of an outsider art movement in Hiroshima.
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Home of Battered Innards, Fukumoto Shokudo Rebooted
Could an under-the-radar purveyor of the soul food of Hiroshima backstreets survive a makeover? [日本語]
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Sayonara to the Daiichi Gekijo Strip Theater
Goto Izumi peeks behind the curtain of Hiroshima’s last strip theater, soon to close after 40 years in business. [日本語]
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Wabi-Sabi Sextertainment
On this occasion, dear reader, it is my deepest pleasure to present to you some of Hiroshima’s rarest and most
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Goto Izumi’s Deep Hiroshima: Kure
Greetings to you readers of the English language. It’s Goto Izumi, lover of the strange over the pretty. Exhausted Hiroshima’s
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Fukumoto Shokudo
Okonomiyaki? Oh please ◔_◔. Do you have what it takes to take on the true soul food of backstreet Hiroshima? [日本語]
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