Sex in the Park, and Its Sneaky Spectators: The Photography of Kohei Yoshiyuki

WHY are the Japanese couples in Kohei Yoshiyuki’s photographs having sex outdoors? Was 1970s Tokyo so crowded, its apartments so small, that they were forced to seek privacy in public parks at night? And what about those peeping toms? Are the couples as oblivious as they seem to the gawkers trespassing on their nocturnal intimacy?

Layers of Voyeurism If the social phenomena captured in these photographs seem distinctly linked to Japanese culture, Mr. Yoshiyuki’s images of voyeurs reverberate well beyond it. Viewing his pictures means that you too are looking at activities not meant to be seen. We line up right behind the photographer, surreptitiously watching the peeping toms who are secretly watching the couples. Voyeurism is us...

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Audio slideshow Layers of Voyeurism

White Rabbit Press - Japanese Kanji Flashcards, Volume 3

First look at our upcoming product. Uncut sheets of kanji cards straight off the press.



White Rabbit Press Japanese Kanji Flashcards, Volume 3 provides the complete set of kanji required for Level 1 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT). Are products are the only kanji cards on the market designed specifically for the JLPT. This Volume 3 set includes over 5,400 vocabulary words.

Release date is April 2008. but we'll start taking pre-orders soon.

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John Maeda, TDC BCCKS

John Maeda designed a minibook for the anniversary of the Tokyo Type Director’s Club that is running as an exhibition this month in Tokyo at a variety of venues including Tsutaya Roppongi, Ginza Graphic Gallery, and Aoyama Book Center. The contents are visible here.

Who's John Maeda? World-renowned Japanese-American graphic designer, artist, comptuer scientist, and MIT professor. Esquire magazine recognized him as one of the 21 most important people for the 21st century.
I was fortunate enough to see his Post Digital exhibit at NTT ICC back in 2001.