Dylan Levi King @dylanleviking
Writer and translator. Tokyo Joined November 2014-
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@left_plain I want to root through the Seagull TLRs...
@roboghost I have been given to understand that the protection racket is diminished but still alive. I don't actually know. I assume that the ward office has more people employed making anti-organized crime materials than there are working gangsters in the neighborhoods they oversee.
April 8th, 2026. Maybe I will start cataloguing ward government mail-out materials promoting the ongoing fight against organized crime. This fibrous tablet will expand into a rag when soaked in water.
@PZRequiK @PLA_Past1927 @Gunlord500 Great stuff. It becomes clear why so much materiel ended up in private hands.
@wednesdier I wish it did, too! But I don't think anyone's bothered to make subtitles in any language. It's a bit obscure.
Another discovery from the 1990s to perhaps the early 2000s youth cinema genre are the films of Hiroki Ryuichi, who was only then transitioning out of pink movies. This is Midori (1996), exhibiting the twisted psychology of postbubble premillennial Japanese youth.
@wednesdier Check it out: archive.org/details/midori….
@kokulist I'm sober, watching Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai.
The Shinjuku Line, instead of picking up passengers, seemed to be emptying out. We came into daylight, crossed a river. I wondered if I had missed my stop, ended up on the west side of the city. But I was in Motoyawata in Chiba, far to the east. I don't ride the line often.
April 22, 2026. There must be some way you could walk from Shibuya to Iwamotocho underground or in elevated passages (not tunnels, but lit corridors, accessible to pedestrians, with ATMs and Korean restaurants along the way). At least, you can get lost in them in Kamiyacho.
April 21, 2026. A long walk from Ikebukuro to Shin-Okubo. The architecture of 1978. Lanes lined with yards with walls give way to alleys that run between fake universities. Internet bars, smoking allowed. The Nepalese shops sell Russian Snickers bars and Bounty at the register.
April 17, 2026. I could have ended the morning with the morning set at one of the cafes in the arcades near the station, instead of stopping for Minute Maid Zero Sugar Peach Lemonade and a sachet of sliced salami to enjoy as I thought of things to write in these spaces.
April 17, 2026. At least, the effort of walking in the early morning sun was good. It was good to soak it up. It's a good season—the rain is done, and it's still cool in the morning, and there are flowers in the alleys.
April 17, 2026. After waking up at a sensible time, I was unwilling to stay in bed. I took the earliest train to Kita-senju, to wander around for a while on the edge of Adachi Ward.
@WalkerChapman The collection was published in the sense of being printed, bound, and circulated, but it never received an official publication number (according to the chapter on him in Maghiel van Crevel's Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money).
I read the Michel Houellebecq poems that Joe Amato translated. They reminded me of Shen Haobo, who is still perhaps most famous for publishing a collection that contained this poem about harassing women on the bus. You will have to make do with my flawed translation.
Yan Lianke, otherwise gloomy: "The greatest advantage of the Chinese Writers' Association is that it ensures that many talented authors won't have to worry about basic living requirements and ... instead can devote themselves to their writing." theparisreview.org/blog/2024/04/1…
Although the state literary bureaucracy is not without its problems, it does guarantee especially middle-aged writers some degree of stability. For better or worse, state protection will guarantee that China is the last nation producing unmarketable literary fiction at scale.
April 6, 2026. In this unnamed rainy season, the Hibiya Line smells of wet socks, a room closed up all winter and suddenly heated. It's almost overpowering. Until the women board at Ginza, with hot, floral perfume. A man sits beside me with a styrofoam crate of warm, spicy meat.
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yoshimi battles video... @nise_yoshimi
38K Followers 2K Following I came alone, and I go as a stranger. author of short fiction, articles and MANCHUKUO 1987, a novel. links to all of that below. not actually japanese
Xianyang City Bureauc... @XianyangCB
20K Followers 4K Following Open access Classical Chinese translations. If elected my primary duty will be to express and satiate the will of the cereal biome whose creature I am.
leftpain @left_plain
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Zichen Wang @ZichenWanghere
41K Followers 5K Following Substack @pekingnology ↓ & part of NON-GOVT @CCG_org. @xhnews alum, Master in Public Policy @PrincetonSPIA. Self-anointed journalist posing as "thinktanker" lol
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86K Followers 745 Following There's never been an immortal society. Figuring out why. Founder @bismarckanlys.
T. Greer @Scholars_Stage
53K Followers 777 Following Long takes on 🇨🇳 politics, 🇺🇸 conservatism, and books I find interesting
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23K Followers 4K Following Technology writer. PhD student @Harvard researching the history of computing
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94 Followers 191 Following 人間は、狡猾に秩序をぬってあるきながら、革命思想を信じることもできるし、貧困と不合理な立法をまもることを強いられながら、革命思想を嫌悪することも出来る。自由な意志は撰択するからだ。しかし、人間の情況を決定するのは関係の絶対性だけである。 吉本隆明『マチウ書試論』
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