Tokyo Journal Street Editor Kjeld Duits hits the streets with his lens to see what’s hot in Harajuku
Tokyo Journal Street Editor Kjeld Duits hits the streets with his lens to see what’s hot in Harajuku
Show this image to any Tokyoite and few will be able to tell you where this place is. They’ll guess it is somewhere abroad. But this is Ginza, Tokyo’s celebrated high-class shopping avenue as it looked in the 1880s.
A horse-drawn streetcar casually runs along an almost empty sandy road flanked with magnificent willow trees and Western-style brick buildings. How immensely different from today’s noisy and crowded Ginza.
Pointing his camera toward Kyobashi, photographer Kimbei Kusakabe stood near what we now know as Ginza Wako, a shop famous for its expensive watches, jewelry and other luxuries.
Japan’s anti-nuclear demonstrations march on. Japan’s residents take to the streets. Friday protests in front of the Prime Minister’s residence have become the norm.
Tokyo Journal Street Editor Kjeld Duits hits the streets with his lens to see what’s hot in Harajuku
AS we near the end of 2012 and prepare for 2013, the Tokyo Journal Winter Edition Issue #270 is about to hit the shelves. Storefronts are decorated in Christmas cheer and year-end parties are certainly near. Although the year’s end is usually a time for closure, there is much astir in Tokyo this winter.
In Politics
On December 16, elections will be held for Japan’s lower house of parliament. Pundits predict a comeback for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) led by conservative Shinzo Abe, Japan’s 90th prime minister who stepped down in 2007 after only one year in office.