January 30, 2005 – 3:38 pm
Satanyanko and Strawberry Song Orchestra are setting up for a double dose of devilish feline fury, playing two nights in a row to celebrate the launch of their split CD at Osaka’s Club Water. Two nights, mixing sounds from Goth, dark rock and neo-retro lie in wait to take you on a trip through the [...]
January 30, 2005 – 12:56 pm
The Japan Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare released it’s annual nation-wide suicide study on Friday, January 28 (See report - Japanese only). The report gives some interesting insights into Japan’s suicide culture, which results in an astounding 30,000+ deaths per year, or a shade under 90 per day.
Monday blues
I remember a study that found [...]
January 29, 2005 – 12:57 pm
Tokyo is a crowded place, so you always have to be careful where you walk to avoid bumping into others. Of course, it is a little unreasonable to have to look up for falling objects, especially people.
On the last day of 2004, a suicidal woman leapt from a 12-storey building landing on top of a [...]
January 27, 2005 – 3:15 pm
All aboard for the next Candy Spook Theater show at Takadanobaba Area. Candy Spook Theater specializes in taking buddhist chants and slamming them sideways into it’s own brand of punk-metal fusion so anything involving these guys is definitely going to be interesting!
Starting from 6:30 p.m. the show will probably last around four hours and set [...]
January 27, 2005 – 5:32 am
Today’s post is going to center around, or at least vaguely float past, a little tome JP recently discovered during a random Web surf, the slightly controversially titled mook, Gothic & Lolita Bible. Don’t worry, I’m gonna tell you what a mook is too.
Well, let’s deal with the controversy of slapping Lolita in the [...]
January 27, 2005 – 4:54 am
Darkness lays upon my soul
Unseen fears take their toll
To touch the sky o’er my head
There is no choice to be but dead
The pain of life enraptures me
Like lost ships in odyssey
Yet, while my soul is set to break
The choice to live must surely take.
† Nov. 10, 2004 †
January 25, 2005 – 9:53 pm
Sometimes your plans get derailed by the unexpected, but that’s a good thing - it reminds you that life is supposed to be interesting. Instead of finishing up a funky little article for JP Goth 2, Igor was drawn to a link in the Google Ad area offering some free Goth sounds from Anders Manga. [...]
January 25, 2005 – 8:17 am
Sex dolls for rental? It’s a scary concept, but it looks like one business (although I shudder to think there are more) has found a niche in the provision of high-end dolls for customers according to a mid-December article in Mainichi’s Wai Wai.
Although costing 600,000 yen at the outset, they have proven profitable for the [...]
January 24, 2005 – 11:20 pm
Half a month of sleepless nights (okay, I averaged two-three hourse a night) and we have the basic shell for JP Goth 2 up and running. Whew! It’s an empty shell at the moment, but that can be rebuilt. Should work really well in the months ahead and anyone can add news, event info, links [...]
January 24, 2005 – 8:24 pm
Gothic Lolita or GothLoli (gosurori) is a fashion particularly popular among Japanese teenagers and young women. It emphasizes Victorian-style girl’s clothing and often aims to imitate the look of Victorian porcelain dolls. Gothloli’s name and origin is a combination of lolita fashion - appearing deliberately cute to the point of looking childish - and certain [...]
