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Daniel Robson
Daniel Robson, a British journalist based in Tokyo since 2006, is a features editor and writer at The Japan Times. He also writes freelance about music, videogames and Japanese pop culture for other publications around the world.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Apr 25, 2007
'Manga' meets 'keitai': a match made in Japanese technology heaven
We've all been there: squashed onto a rush-hour commuter train with barely enough room to breathe, let alone open up a book to while away the journey; trying desperately to crush a book into an overstuffed backpack before a long trip; or cursing our own lack of foresight while bored at school or work...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 30, 2007
The monster behind the mask
With their explosive metal sound and monstrous good looks, Lordi have become Finland's prime music export over the last year. Following a decade of grueling efforts, Lordi broke through internationally with their fourth album "The Arockalypse" after winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, marking Finland's...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Mar 28, 2007
'Splume' -- Japan gets its own world of avatars
Judging by Newton's Third Law of Motion the great English scientist really must have gazed into a crystal ball and seen the Japan of today. His famous law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. For every anonymous concrete apartment block and crisp white shirt locked in...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 23, 2007
B-girl boppers
'Maybe they can smell something on us!" says Halca, 18, one half of hip-hop- meets-J-pop duo HalCali.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 22, 2007
Beck: Too much information for an hombre to handle
Beck talks about his upcoming tour of Japan, a stockpile of songs that grows faster than he is able to record them and a trans-Pacific collaboration that will just have to wait
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 16, 2007
Full-color business and pleasure
If there's one thing that's drawing the eyes of the world toward Japan, it'sanime. From "Akira" to "Spirited Away," through years of moving, high-concept beauties and "video nasties," and right down to the plethora of sprawling half-hour cartoon series, animation is widely regarded as Japan's key artistic...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 16, 2007
Beyonce
Superstars don't come much bigger than Beyonce Knowles. With 10 Grammys under her tiny belt, she has been pelted with adulation throughout her career, be it as part of 50-million-selling R&B trio Destiny's Child or as a solo artist.
CULTURE / Music
Feb 23, 2007
Shiina Ringo "Heisei Fuzoku"
You could never call Yumiko Shiina predictable. Finding success as a solo artist and then forming a band, her nine-year career has been as topsy-turvy as her music. And on "Heisei Fuzoku," her first solo album in four years and the soundtrack to the Edo Period movie "Sakuran," she and composer/ violinist...
CULTURE / Music
Jan 19, 2007
Great Adventure "OK Screamer"
"OK Screamer" is a deceptive record. At first, the third album from the Anglophile groove-rockers Great Adventure sounds like unfettered Britpop-worship, with po-faced baggy beats and Stone Roses sensibilities straight out of the early-1990s.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 11, 2007
Big mouth strikes again ... and again
Is Lily Allen an outspoken genius or an unwarranted meanie? To help you decide, here are 10 of her top tongue-lashings.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 11, 2007
Lily in bloom as the opinionated princess of pop
'I've never really looked up to people in music," says Lily Allen, London's rising pop star. In fact, "rising" may be too subtle a word -- "soaring" would be more accurate. Right now in Britain she adorns several magazine covers, blasts from radio stations across all demographics, and even played just...
CULTURE / Music
Dec 15, 2006
Oasis "Stop The Clocks"
Oasis do not abound in originality, as this "best-of" compilation released in time for Christmas proves. Songs from each of their six albums and B-sides rub shoulders happily, sounding as fresh (or as stale, depending on your viewpoint) as the next. But somehow, 12 years down the line, the brothers Gallagher...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 1, 2006
Klaxons
While scores of Western bands have recently rediscovered the jarring joys of late-1970s punk-funk, creating an explosion of apoplectic guitar dance-'em-ups, few are as odd as Klaxons. Fusing this sound with an electro edge, the band have found themselves touted as glowstick-bearers of the so-called "nu-rave"...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 24, 2006
Watch this MySpace
W ith sites already running in Europe and Australia, U.S. social networking site MySpace finally landed in Japan last week, squaring up against the all-conquering homegrown service Mixi.
CULTURE / Music
Nov 17, 2006
HiGE "Peanuts Forever"
It's funny how the Japanese are nowadays often better at U.S. indie than Americans. While most of the world's worshippers at the Nirvana/Pixies/Pavement shrine forget those bands' skewed wit and take themselves far too seriously, in Japan the weirdness thrives.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 3, 2006
Mystery Jets
When multi-generational British band Mystery Jets walked on stage at Fuji Rock Festival this year for their first Japanese show, it was to a packed Red Marquee chanting "Zootime," the title of the band's 2005 debut single. When they followed the festival with a soldout performance at Tokyo's Liquid Room...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 27, 2006
Dub pioneer Lee Perry talks God, ganja and Japanese gadgets
Musical resumes don't get much more impressive than Lee "Scratch" Perry's, the Jamaican maverick credited with inventing both dub and reggae.
CULTURE / Music
Oct 20, 2006
GO!GO!7188 "Parade"
Like many of the best things in life -- love, drunkenness, ice cream, fireworks -- GO!GO!7188 are tricky to explain but a joy to experience. Formed in 1998, the band blend rockabilly rhythms, surf guitar and J-pop hooks, and the end result is enough to elicit giddiness, goose bumps and gasps from just...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 19, 2006
Cornelius pops back with touching sounds
Keigo Oyamada, better known as Cornelius, is one of Japan's most recognized musical exports. His innovative approach to electronic music on his 1997 breakthrough album "Fantasma," which has sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide, and then on 2001's "Point" have won him fans in Europe, America, Australia...
CULTURE / Music
Oct 13, 2006
Scritti Politti "White Bread Black Beer"
With his punk roots, 1980s pop hits and hip-hop beatmaking, you could never accuse Scritti Politti's Green Gartside of being musically limited. Yet with just five Scritti Politti albums over 25 years, this 51-year-old Welsh recluse is hardly pop's most prolific son either. On "White Bread Black Beer,"...
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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