Throw Out Your Books

I greeted the news that the subject of my upcoming book was appearing in a short film to premiere shortly after publication with an inevitable degree of excitement and regret.

On 26 June, the Tokyo High Court handed down a ruling in an appeal filed by three bereaved family members seeking damages from the state over the death of left-wing activist Hoshino Fumiaki in 2019.

I am very pleased to announce the publication of my book Pink Auteur, Red Outlaw: Adachi Masao and Japan’s Cinema of Revolution on September 1.

This year has seen the publication of Wakayama Tadataka’s photo book Threshold from Akaaka, the latest in a growing corpus of photographic practices that engage with the legacy of the Narita Airport protests and the current landscape in the Chiba … Contin…

The far-left group Chūkaku-ha issued an extraordinary statement on 11 September announcing that a leading member of its youth wing, Ishida Mayumi, had been dismissed from his senior positions in the Central Student Committee and Politburo, and expelled due

News Post Seven published an extensive four-part interview in July with a 21-year-old woman identified only as Ninomiya, described as “Chūkaku-ha’s mystery beauty”.

Yoshida Dormitory has reached a settlement in its long-running lawsuit with Kyoto University.

While the famous and infamous inevitably attract admiration and attention in abundance, a very particular strain of curiosity is reserved also for their offspring.

A new film by possibly the oldest working director in Japan and last surviving auteur of the New Wave should be major news in its own right, but the most recent work by Adachi Masao has attracted attention so far … Continue reading →

On 1 January 2024, Noto was hit by a major earthquake, especially devastating Wajima and Suzu at the end of the peninsula.

One of the reasons I have been less active here recently is my involvement these past two years in a research project with Dr Gary McLeod with the University of Tsukuba investigating rephotographic practices and coastal change in the Tōhoku … Continue rea…