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What I’m talking about when I talk about akiya
What I’m talking about when I talk about akiya
Welcome to life in capitalist ruins
Sam Holden
May 31, 2021
Pandemic in a peaceful daze
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…
Sam Holden
Apr 5, 2020
End of the line for the Shinkansen?
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…
Sam Holden
Oct 5, 2019
The meaning of Ueno Station’s new phantom platform
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…
Sam Holden
Dec 7, 2016
Renovation culture in Kokura
Renovation culture in Kokura
The third destination I visited during my December trip to post-growth communities was Kokura, a city located 2.5 hours from Itoshima on…
Sam Holden
Dec 30, 2015
Letter from Itoshima
Letter from Itoshima
After four days in Nagasaki, I hop on a 7:14 AM northbound train for my next destination, Itoshima, a rural city of 100,000 that occupies…
Sam Holden
Dec 28, 2015
Note from Nagasaki
Note from Nagasaki
At 9:30 PM on my first night in Nagasaki, Satoru Iwamoto meets me in front of the Oura Church, built in 1864 to honor the twenty-six…
Sam Holden
Dec 24, 2015
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