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Dispatches from Post-growth Japan

What I’m talking about when I talk about akiya

Welcome to life in capitalist ruins

Jun 1, 2021

What I’m talking about when I talk about akiya

Jun 1, 2021

Sam Holden

Tokyo’s zombie Olympics march on

The games—and growth—must go on

May 18, 2021

Tokyo’s zombie Olympics march on

May 18, 2021

Sam Holden

Can Japan’s maglev bullet train survive covid?

The coronavirus upended few sectors as much as travel. Thus the announcement that ridership on Japan’s Tokaido Shinkansen was down 84%…

Oct 6, 2020

Can Japan’s maglev bullet train survive covid?

Oct 6, 2020

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Dispatches from Post-growth Japan

Pandemic in a peaceful daze

I largely passed the month of March at my windowsill in Tokyo, minding my plants and parsing the gap between the news pouring into my palm…

Apr 5, 2020

Pandemic in a peaceful daze

Apr 5, 2020

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Dispatches from Post-growth Japan

End of the line for the Shinkansen?

Whenever you pass through a JR East train station in Tokyo, sleek images of the latest Shinkansen bullet trains can be found adorning…

Oct 5, 2019

End of the line for the Shinkansen?

Oct 5, 2019

Sam Holden

Castles and Capsules: Urbanism in America and Japan

Compared to the view of the yawning interstate heading to the Denver airport, the window of my train as it wends through suburban Tokyo…

Aug 22, 2019

Aug 22, 2019

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Dispatches from Post-growth Japan

The meaning of Ueno Station’s new phantom platform

How much distance separates platform 18 from platform 13.5? This question crossed my mind when I read an article about JR East’s…

Dec 7, 2016

The meaning of Ueno Station’s new phantom platform

Dec 7, 2016

Sam Holden

The Olympics come to Tokyo

On August 21, Tokyo’s newly-elected governor Yuriko Koike received the Olympic flag from Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes at a rainy…

Aug 31, 2016

The Olympics come to Tokyo

Aug 31, 2016

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Encyclopedia of Post-growth Japan

Daycare shortage | 待機児童

“What the hell, Japan?”

Jun 3, 2016

Jun 3, 2016

Sam Holden
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Encyclopedia of Post-growth Japan

Population decline | 人口減少

Japan is shrinking. The 2015 census results announced in February confirmed that the national population declined by nearly one million…

May 30, 2016

Population decline | 人口減少

May 30, 2016

Sam Holden

Sam Holden

I live in Tokyo and helped to create Tokyo Little House. I like to think about degrowth, geography, cities, culture.

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