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Meet Ogasawara-go, Tokyo's Own English-Japanese Creole | Metropolis Japan (opens the original)
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Shaped by sailors, whalers, and decades of American rule, these islands ended up with a language found nowhere else in Japan. By Takeshi Dylan Sadachi • July 31, 2026 Imagine asking someone in Tokyo how they were doing and hearing the reply, “Me wa genki-daja, you wa?” About a thousand kilometers south of central Tokyo, past the Izu Islands, lie the Ogasawara Islands. It is not just the distance or the nature that makes it feel surreal to call this place Tokyo, but its history, the history that
A Fijian Restaurant in Okinawa | Metropolis Japan (opens the original)
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Airando Fiji Restaurant & Cafe (Kouri Island, Okinawa) By Takeshi Dylan Sadachi • July 28, 2026 Big cities have a particular kind of culinary beauty, where you can taste things from different corners of the world, sometimes unexpectedly. And yet, one day a random thought crossed my mind: Pacific Island cuisine is not easily found. When I lived in London I thought I might come across more, since many Pacific islands, especially in Melanesia, were once British colonies. But no luck there either. T
Night Photography: Capturing Tokyo's Nocturnal Beauty | Metropolis Japan (opens the original)
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Featuring Matthieu Bühler aka @mattdreamsneon By Takeshi Dylan Sadachi • July 22, 2026 Capturing the urbanscape at night: Tokyo somehow became the mecca of it. Bright neon lights in the dark, alleys with glowing vending machines and street lights gleaming off the clean pavement. All topped off with the saturated tones of color grading. It has become a genre of photography, and talents from all over the world come to Tokyo to shoot the city in this aesthetic. On YouTube, night walk videos of Toky
Why It Always Comes Back to Being an Island | Metropolis Japan (opens the original)
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From gara-kei to J-pop: unpacking Japan's "Galápagos syndrome," exceptionalism, and the truth behind the isolated-nation cliché. By Takeshi Dylan Sadachi • July 16, 2026 Y2K is back. One of the essentials of the early 2000s aesthetic was the flip phone. But the Japanese snap-open status symbol has a unique retrospective name now: gara-kei, short for Galápagos keitai (mobile phone). And no, these phones did not come from the Ecuadorian archipelago. The “Galápagos” label came from Japanese busines
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