Daniel Warriner
@danielwarriner.com
Editor in Tokyo posting Japan-related stuff, articles, essays, photos, and fiction. 記事やフィクション、気になる映画の解説など投稿しています。 Web: https://www.danielwarriner.com/
Cycled by today’s fire at the army base, JGSDF Camp Asaka (陸上自衛隊 朝霞駐屯地)
Tanuki is back! Maybe too hot to sleep all day 🐾 His fur is coming back too after a bout of mange in May 🦝
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force tubists at the 20th Yosakoi Festival in Hikarigaoka Park, Tokyo (July 18–20, 9 am–9 pm daily) At: 35°45'52.1"N 139°37'49.1"E
“Shinjuku Niagara Falls” in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Central Park My hometown is the 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 Niagara Falls (the Canadian side), but in the 1990s I lived near this park, in Honmachi, Shibuya
Good article by Sean Williams in The Guardian ‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza
The long read: Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her
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Saw three types of heron this morning, and cormorants Sanpoji Pond, Tokyo At: 35°44'18.1"N 139°35'43.9"E
Walked past this and Hayao Miyazaki sprang to mind, not sure why exactly
Revisiting some of the books on Japan I read a few years ago. Ian Buruma’s Tokyo Romance, and a lot of his other work, has stayed with me. www.danielwarriner.com/post/a-tokyo...
A Tokyo Romance
A Tokyo Romance (2018) is Ian Buruma’s memoir of his six years in Japan. He moved to Tokyo in 1975 at the age of 23, studied cinema at Nichidai in Ekoda, and met figures such as Donald Richie, Akira K...
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I’ve spotted a few tanuki in the area recently but wasn’t quick enough with my camera. They seem to appear on the hottest summer days, during the rare snowfall in Tokyo, and when the blossoms are falling. And they’re very curious. I saw this one down my street around this time last year.
Daniel Warriner@danielwarriner.com · last yr.Paws on blossoms, Tanuki out for morning stroll
Peaceful spot outside Shuzenji Temple, Izu At: 34.97090° N, 138.92766° E
Early morning in Ichiyama, Izu At: 34.9025589, 138.9251326
Nirayama Reverberatory Furnace (韮山反射炉). Smelting facility buit by the Tokugawa government in 1857. At: 35°02′22.2″N 138°57′43.6″E
For a few weeks each year they open a section of the park behind my house. People come from all over to see the katakuri (fawn lily) flowers. Apparently rare in Tokyo. The rest of the year it stays locked.
