Word: nakameguro
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...like these are works from William Burroughs, Marshall McLuhan, radical hippy activist Jerry Rubin and many more (it's an inventory that betrays the impeccable taste of literary critic and store owner Yataro Matsuura). When you've browsed to your heart's content, you'll find the immediate area, Nakameguro, well worth exploring, too?it's one of the Japanese capital's hippest neighborhoods, strewn with caf?s, vintage-clothing boutiques and music stores. If you can't make it to Nakameguro, there's a Cow Books branch in the swish Aoyama district, as well as a mobile library, the Traveling...
...When you've browsed to your heart's content, you'll find the immediate area, Nakameguro, well worth exploring, too - it's one of the Japanese capital's hippest neighborhoods, strewn with cafés, vintage-clothing boutiques and music stores. If you can't make it to Nakameguro, there's a Cow Books branch in the swish Aoyama district, as well as a mobile library, the Traveling Cow Books service, which sets up shop at various locations across Tokyo. That way, your copy of On The Road can get on the road...
...subway wore big sunglasses ... he had on a surgical mask; but then, a lot of people in Tokyo wear masks during hay-fever season. The witnesses agree he boarded the eight-car B711T train on Tokyo's Hibiya line when it originated at 8 a.m. at the Nakameguro station ... the masked man easily found a seat and ... almost immediately began fiddling with a foot-long rectangular object wrapped in newspapers. At the next stop he set the package on the floor and strode briskly from the train. By then, says a witness, a moist spot had appeared on the wrapping...
...Despite all the hype?and bankable successes?there's still a naive, slightly dreamy look about Oyamada as he sits in his private recording studio in Nakameguro, Tokyo, flipping through pages of a worn-out manga magazine. It's only when he speaks that one detects the full weight of his 10 years in the Japanese indie-rock scene. "I'm not really into that whole rock and roll lifestyle," he says. "Even traveling in Europe, everything's kind of new and fresh and fun at first, but when you're doing the same thing 80 times...
...expressing himself in the studio. Much of Point is still a microcosmic view of Oyamada's kaleidoscopic tastes in sound?on the track I Hate Hate, for example, he leaps across genres spanning thrash metal, techno and jazz. Point, as the words of the album's subtitle from Nakameguro to Everywhere suggests, is Oyamada's more grown-up, global take on life. The album's introspective mood (with ambiant sound effects of birds chirping and of rushing water) reflects recent developments in the artist's own private life: namely his marriage to the singer Takako Minekawa two years...