thread of my #arcadeexploration posts, starting with my latest:
exploring the arcade in the 1978 movie 鬼畜 / Kichiku (The Demon)
each blog entry features an arcade in a movie (mostly from #japan) and tries to identify all of the machines.
This is an exceptionally difficult task because:
Police in the prefecture of Nagano in #Japan say a man with what appeared to be a hunting rifle and a knife has killed a woman and two officers. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/
Announcing the release of the 2023 May #zine issue compiling articles from the インディー通信 #IndieTsushin blog, celebrating and introducing #IndieGames from #Japan!
See also two more photos from Sumiyoshi Grand Shrine in Ōsaka. I joked to the shrine maidens: 「両手に花！」 = a flower in each hand = someone who has two girlfriends.
Coincidentally, the haiku part of the haiga is similar to one of my published haiku in the Bilingual Haiku Scroll (和英俳句の掛け軸) - downloadable from http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/jq4s-hx59 - as follows:
霧笛呼び 汽笛のこだま 夏の夜
A distant foghorn blows
A midsummer night's call
A train whistle echoes
Wrote about Neko Can Dream, a gorgeous and surreal Game Boy-styled adventure game made by Nekobungi Sumire. Dive into people's dreams and figure out how to turn them into canned dreams. It's a haunting and strange story, and one that I really hope more people check out.
One of my favorite #Jakarta coffee shops, Tana Mera, is in #Singapore! Best cappuccino I've had in many months (#Japan has great #coffee but not many great cappuccinos)
In the most basic terms, the plot of visual novel "Steins;Gate" involves sending messages into the past in order to set changes in motion that will improve the present and future. Odds are that’s something that Shinobu Yoshida wishes he could do right now.
#Japan riot police pin #G7 protesters to ground in scuffle #PoliceBrutality#ACAB The demonstration was organised by the far-left extremist "Revolutionary Communist League National Committee", which denounces the G7 summit as a conference of "imperialism for nuclear war". https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-65663384
It's relatively easy to find sources willing to criticize #Japan's fossil fuel investments in #seasia
But its far more difficult to get anyone, especially from outside the region, to do the same for #Chinese#fossilfuel or #mining investments.
For example, on #Indonesia#coalgasification plans, now only supported by Chinese investment. So little global outcry compared to Japan's #LNG investments.
President Zelenskyy, in a meeting with President Biden in #Japan, is asked by a reporter whether Bakhmut is still in the hands of #Ukraine, replies: “I think no. You have to understand there is nothing left of it. They destroyed it."
War is the work of man
War is destruction of human life
War is death
To remember the past is to commit oneself to the future
To remember Hiroshima is to abhor nuclear war
To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace
10:30 am 25 February 1991
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
His holiness pope John Paul II
Japanese police make first-ever YouTuber arrest for uploading video game gameplay videos (japantoday.com)
In the most basic terms, the plot of visual novel "Steins;Gate" involves sending messages into the past in order to set changes in motion that will improve the present and future. Odds are that’s something that Shinobu Yoshida wishes he could do right now.