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🗺️ 📍 🗾 We #Japanese Are Very Asian in the USA ...but Not #Asian in The UK Who am I & who are You? Living abroad forces me to solve a puzzle I didn’t even know existed @yuriminamide.bsky.social explores the significant differences in our perceptions of ‘Asian people’ 🌏 medium.com/found-worlds...

Six feminine faces with differing skin tones and hair colour - do we look similar or different? (Photo by Joeyy Lee on Unsplash)

"One sleepless night led to an experience I’ll never forget... winding my way into the mountains of Wakayama Prefecture, heading toward one of Japan’s most sacred Buddhist destinations" 'A Misty Morning in Kōyasan Felt Like Stepping Into Another World' by Angel Green ⛩️ medium.com/found-worlds...

photograph by Angel Green taken while crossing the red-railed Hasu-no-ike (Lotus Pond) bridge, a misty crossing to a hidden sanctuary

🏯 ⚔️ 🪭 Only 12 of Japan’s 30,000+ Castles Survived @yuriminamide.bsky.social explains why "they have become powerful symbols of cultural pride, resilience & - perhaps surprisingly - peace. Learning about them is a journey through Japan’s #history & soul" ⭐ medium.com/found-worlds... #Japan

Only 12 of Japan’s 30,000+ Castles Survived — Here’s Why

The dramatic shift from devices of war to a symbol of resilience and peace

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🩸 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 💬 "What's your blood type?" - this passes for a normal introduction in #Japan. Even #manga & #anime characters get an official blood type listed right next to height & birthday. Hiro Usui doesn't believe blood type shapes personality yet still knows everyone’s... 💉 medium.com/found-worlds...

I Don’t Believe Blood Type Shapes Personality. I Still Know Everyone’s.

In Japan, this is what passes for a normal introduction.

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🌇 ⚡ 🚋 "It’s been 125 years since an English-origin Mayor supervised the transition of Rīga’s tramways making the electric tram networks in the Latvian capital one of the oldest in Europe... & the largest in the Baltic States" by Vickey Maverick 🚦 medium.com/found-worlds... #travel #history #Riga

A classic white and blue tram at an intersection in the Latvian capital of Riga [Photograph ©Vickey Maverick]

💥 💬 👁️ Japan’s #Manga Industry Is One of the World’s Last True Meritocracies Where Women Thrive "No hiring committee. No résumé screen. No gender quota ... No academic credential. You submit your work. If readers love it, you keep going..." by Kazuki Yamamoto (山本航暉) ✒️ medium.com/found-worlds...

Japan’s Manga Industry Is One of the World’s Last True Meritocracies Where Women Thrive

What’s in the Popular Survey That Shapes Your Life?

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💕 🧸 🐰 Nui-katsu #ぬい活 - trend in which #Japanese adults take our soft toys with us & photograph them in cafés & at travel destinations. @yuriminamide.bsky.social explores the history & background & explains, "they are ourselves, our friends, & our idols..." 🎀 medium.com/found-worlds... #kawaii

Nui-Katsu: Why Japanese Adults Carry Around Plush Toys

They are ourselves, our friends, and our idols

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🚲 🏔️ 🚵‍♀️ "With Tour de France 2026 underway ... possibly an apt time to look back at events in Rimini & narrate the story of the missing statue... of Marco Pantani, popularly known as 'Il Pirata' - winner in 1998." 'Riminiscing [sic] About the Pirate' by Vickey Maverick 🚴‍♂️ medium.com/found-worlds...

Riminiscing About the Pirate

The pun in the title is deliberate, of course.

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Found Worlds @foundworlds.bsky.social · 4w ago

🎤 🤼‍♀️ 🎵 'The Power of Black Music: A Measured Discussion about the India Arie & Yung Miami Situation' When both sides are right… & wrong, The instinct is to pick sides & attack. LGWare, The Black Lens, ask us "Why?" 🎶 medium.com/found-worlds... #music #rap #gender

The Power of Black Music: A Measured Discussion about the India Arie and Yung Miami Situation

When both sides are right…and wrong

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🩹 ⚕️ 🩺 "I was told, to my face, that going pro was impossible. 10 million copies later, here’s what actually decided it." My name is Kazuki Yamamoto. I drew 'God Hand Teru', a medical #manga serialised for over 10 years in 'Weekly Shonen Magazine' ✒️ medium.com/found-worlds... #イラスト #illustration

Illustrations by Kazuki Yamamoto: three panels from the manga 'God Hand Teru' depicting characters discussing a problem one has with his neck - please feel free to repost this as it is but please do not reproduce or use elsewhere without written permission from the illustrator - more information in article via link in post

Found Worlds @foundworlds.bsky.social · 4w ago

💥👁️‍🗨️⚡ 'The Methods I Used to Survive 10 Years of Weekly Deadlines' by #Japanese #manga #artist Kazuki Yamamoto (山本航暉） "...by the time the final chapter ran, I had drawn over 10,000 pages across 62 volumes — every single one of them in ink, by hand." 📚 medium.com/found-worlds... #イラスト #illustration

Japanese Manga Artist: The Methods I Used to Survive 10 Years of Weekly Deadlines

80 Slots That Decide Everything

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🥖 🌄 ☕ 'Looking for Oxygen in a Land of Postcards: A Manifesto on Reclaiming Yourself Through Travel' What a soul-shifting trip to #France taught me about the difference between traveling for leisure & traveling for my life by Abigail Carlysle: 🥐 medium.com/found-worlds... #travel

Looking for Oxygen in a Land of Postcards: A Manifesto on Reclaiming Yourself Through Travel

What my soul-shifting trip to France taught me about the difference between traveling for leisure and traveling for my life.

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🌏 🦘 ☁️ "Illuminate Adelaide is not a #festival in the conventional sense... no stages, no schedules to navigate, no wristbands. It is, more precisely, a transformation of the city itself into a medium" 'A Weekend Chasing Light & #Art in #Adelaide' by Swainson🏮 medium.com/found-worlds... #travel

A Weekend Chasing Light and Art in Adelaide

In the middle of an Australian winter, a small city turned its streets into galleries and its nights into something worth staying up for.

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🎤 🎭 👘 RIP Akihiro Miwa, the iridescent beauty who shaped Yukio Mishima @yuriminamide.bsky.social explores why he had such a huge impact on Japanese culture & how his ultimate strength also forged #Japanese identify in the post-war era... 🎙️ medium.com/found-worlds... #Japan #history #art #music

Akihiro Miwa: The Iridescent Beauty Who Shaped Yukio Mishima

His ultimate strength also forged us Japanese in the post-war era

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Black Boy Boundaries: The Impact of Respect Culture & Masculinity "...not claiming that Black boys have different boundaries than white boys; she is saying that Black boys *have* boundaries too..." L G Ware takes another look at Karmelo Anthony & violence in America 🗽 medium.com/found-worlds...

Black Boy Boundaries: The Impact of Respect Culture and Masculinity

Another look at Karmelo Anthony and violence in America

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🗾 🌊 🌾 'The Southern Shore that is in the North' "There is a song on Hatoma... It begins with islanders climbing the central hill of the island & looking out over the sea from the top" Hiroshi Sato sings of a time when the sea joined us & the land kept us apart... 🏝️ medium.com/found-worlds...

The southern shore that is in the north

When the sea joined us and the land kept us apart

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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️@remydean.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💮 🌸 🌺 Hana Chōzu: Our new favourite healing floral #art the pandemic left #Japan with that has made shrines & temples even more delightful "At the heart of it all was their wish to put a smile on visitors’ faces..." by @yuriminamide.bsky.social ⛩️ medium.com/found-worlds...

Hana Chōzu: Our New Favourite Healing Floral Art the Pandemic Left Japan With

Our shrines and temples have grown even more delightful

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...if you watch #Japanese dramas you'll notice how coded the use of names can be - here's a useful article that helps toward a clearer understanding of those conventions & how they change according to circumstances...

Found Worlds@foundworlds.bsky.social · 2mo ago

👩‍🏭 🧑‍💼 👨‍👩‍👧 We Japanese Are Always Role-Playing in Society "...by switching multiple roles, we're less likely to be cornered into thinking 'I’m a complete failure'. Our actions in one place do not define us as a whole." by @yuriminamide.bsky.social 💐 medium.com/found-worlds... #Japan #culture

🛢️ 🚢 🗺️ Nevertheless, a #Japanese Oil Tanker Arrived in #Iran @yuriminamide.bsky.social tells the interesting / inspiring tale of how a #Japanese businessman broke through a British naval blockade at the Strait of Hormuz — In 1953: 🌊 medium.com/found-worlds... #history #Japan

Nevertheless, a Japanese Oil Tanker Arrived in Iran — In 1953

How a Japanese businessman broke through the British naval blockade

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🦉 🏙️ 🌅 Be a Night Owl or an Early Bird: Tokyo Summer Events to Enjoy & Escape the Heat Shibuya nights, ‘Miko Dance’ at Asakusa Shrine, Asa Katsu activities, shady gardens, tea ceremony discover another side of #Tokyo with @yuriminamide.bsky.social 🏯 medium.com/found-worlds... #travel #Japan

Be a Night Owl or an Early Bird: Tokyo Summer Events to Escape The Heat

And discover another side of Tokyo

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📍 ⛲ 🖋️ What Is James Joyce Doing in Leopold Bloom’s Place of Birth? "Bloomsday (16 June) is a commemoration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce & his acclaimed 1922 novel 'Ulysses'. The day is named after the novel's protagonist." 📚 medium.com/found-worlds... #literature #booksky #history

What Is James Joyce Doing in Leopold Bloom’s Place of Birth?

I wondered after spotting the Irish writer in Szombathely, the Hungarian city where his legendary protagonist was born.

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🖌️ 👘 🍶 Traditional #Japanese Crafts in the Heart of #Tokyo Here are three of the main themes that connected many of the crafts from the Japan Traditional Crafts Ginza Artisan’s Street (Ginza Meishoichi) by Clairine Daphne Tjahjono 🥣 medium.com/found-worlds... #tavel #art #design #fashion

Traditional Japanese Crafts in the Heart of Tokyo

When traditional Japanese culture meets a modern, global audience

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👢 🆒 🧥 Cool Japanese Appliances the World Hasn’t Discovered Yet "...introducing four household appliances common in #Japan but rarely seen elsewhere. They are so good that I actually brought some of them to the UK..." by @yuriminamide.bsky.social 😺 medium.com/found-worlds...

Four Cool Japanese Home Appliances the World Hasn’t Discovered Yet

You might end up wanting one or two of them

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