
Japan; land of the rising sun, home of some of the most advanced technology in the world, and a place where you can buy school girl’s used panties in a vending machine while watching a cute animated character get eviscerated on network television at 5 o’clock in the evening.
Their major cities have more neon skyscrapers than a William Gibson fever dream, and their shadows are dotted with ancient shrines. They blur the naughty bits out of their porn, but their entertainment is among the most outlandishly violent in the world.
It is this dichotomy that makes Japan so damn interesting ? and so damn hard for the rest of us to understand.






