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d design travel is a travel guide series that introduces readers to specific regions in Japan with the perspective of long-lasting design. The editorial team spends two months living and traveling in the region covered to find places that are unique to it. The guides are written honestly and feature only places and things the editorial team finds moving.

• Renowned architect Tadao Ando
• Graphical analysis of Osaka
• Local radio station FM802
• and a lot more
• Print length 154 pages
• Language Japanese
• Publisher D & Department
• Publication date October 1, 2015
• Dimensions 7.44 x 9.57 inches
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【 d design travel 】 "d design travel" is a series of travel guides that introduces Japanese prefectures from the perspective of long-lasting design. The editorial team spends two months living and traveling in the prefecture to find places that are unique to it. The guides are written honestly and only feature places and things the editorial team found moving.

【 A Few Thoughts Regarding the Publication of This Series 】 I believe that a “design perspective” will become extremely important for future generations, and indeed people of all generations, to interact with all areas of Japan. By“design perspective,” I mean an imagination, which discerns what has substance and will endure, and allows users to easily understand and enjoy innovations. I feel that now, more than ever, a new kind of guide book with a “design perspective” is needed. Therefore, we will publish a guide to each of Japan’s 47 prefectures. The guidebooks will be composed, researched, and edited identically and be similar in volume.

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【 Our editorial concept： 】 - Any business or product we recommend will first have been purchased or used at the researchers’ own expense. That is to say, the writers have all actually spent the night in at the inns, eaten at the restaurants, and purchased the products they recommend.

- We will not recommend some thing unless it moves us. The recommendations will be written sincerely and in our own words.

- If something or some service is wonderful, but not without problems, we will point out the problems while recommending it.

- The businesses we recommend will not have editorial influence. Their only role in the publications will be fact checking.

- We will only pick up things deemed enduring from the “long life design” perspective.

- We will not enhance photographs by using special lenses. We will capture things as they are.

- We will maintain a relationship with the places and people we pick up after the publication of the guidebook in which they are featured.

【 Our selection criteria： 】 - The business or product is uniquely local. - The business or product communicates an important local message. - The business or product is operated or produced by local people. - The product or services are reasonably priced. - The business or product is innovatively designed.

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【 About D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT 】 D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT was founded by designer Kenmei Nagaoka in 2000. Its activities, ranging from shops and galleries to publishing and workshops, are based on the theme "Long-Lasting Design", and try to convey to consumers the characteristics of land and people in each prefecture from the design viewpoint.

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Design buffs should head to D&Department Osaka, a design-led space in Horie district, close to the famous Orange Street. Designer Kenmei Nagaoka launched the project D&Department as a means of creating, sharing and appreciating enduring designs, and is especially celebratory of timeless Japanese designs and traditions. You can find that appreciation in a wide range of things, whether they be ceramic bowls or specialty foods, furniture, clothes or kitchenware.

The D&Department Osaka carries curated products that have a timeless appeal. The project procures artisanal products from all over Japan such as Lifestock blankets made from wool from the Gifu prefecture and Karimoku furniture made from sustainably-sourced wood.

The three storey-building has two shopping floors. The ground floor showcases lifestyle and household products, including kitchenware and clothes. You'll find an assortment of new and used goods in-store, so if you're a fan of recycling, this is a good place to check out. The clothes line 'Rewear' is made of secondhand pieces, dyed in fresh new colours and ready with a new lease on life. For the blue that the Japanese call 'Hanada', they applied traditional indigo dying techniques to achieve this sublime shade.

The second floor houses a wide selection of furniture, some of it pre-loved and delightful in their retro appeal. A cafe sits on the top floor of the building, where you can sit and read design books while enjoying a lunch special of linguine with homemade bacon and white bean ragout or a hamburger steak set. They also serve a variety of Japanese craft beer and wine.

The project is also well-known for the publication of the travel magazine d design travel . Each issue of the travel guide introduces a Japanese prefecture, emphasizing its design hotspots, products and producers. The editorial team highlights hidden local gems that they love and the appreciation shows. It's a good guide for travellers who love design and want a more in-depth knowledge of Japan that is not typical of the sightseeing guides.

There are D&Department stores in all the main cities in Japan, so you wouldn't have to venture far to have your design hunger sated.

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Address: 1-19-23, Minamihorie, Nishi-ku, Osaka , +81-06-6535-9461

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Address: 16-7 Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0013 , +81-06-6359-0111

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Address: Namba Center Buiding B2-2F, 12-22 Sen-nichimae, Nanba, Chuo-ku, Osaka 542-0075 , +81-06-6648-6461

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Located in the furniture district of Horie , D&Department is a huge furniture and housewares department store, that sells rugs and storage items, pen stands and chopstick holders, and everything in between. The products sold at the shop are all created by Japanese designers. With so many straight-forward, functional yet elegant items on display, D&Department is a great place to spend an afternoon browsing.

Address: 2 Chome-9-14 Minamihorie, Nishi Ward, Osaka 550-0015 , +81 6-4391-2090

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Transport becomes most pressing issue one year out from Osaka Expo

With one year to go until the opening of the 2025 Expo, overall construction is progressing steadily, with the exception of foreign pavilions, for which only about a dozen countries have broken ground.

How to ensure the 28 million visitors expected over six months can easily access the expo site on Osaka’s artificial Yumeshima island via the Chuo Line — which is being extended to service the site and is expected to be ready in time for the start of the expo — and two access roads is a more pressing question than finishing pavilion construction, the head of the Paris-based Bureau of International Expositions has said. The organization is in charge of overseeing and regulating the expo.

The concern is particularly acute since visitors who travel to the expo by car or a free shuttle bus from various stations in central Osaka will have to share the access roads with vehicles heading to and from a cargo terminal and a casino resort currently under construction, which are also on Yumeshima.

As worries grow about whether the expo site will be ready for its opening, organizers find themselves under scrutiny over how they will deal with questions about vehicular access to the site with just two roads to get to and from the island.

The 28 million visitors over the course of the event works out to 154,000 people per day on average. Add all those also driving to and from Yumishima during expo to work at the casino resort site or the cargo terminal, and there could be major traffic jams.

Dimitri Kerkentzes, secretary-general of the Bureau of International Expositions, told Osaka officials during a Wednesday visit that transportation logistics problems needed to be solved.

“(The issue) is perhaps the biggest challenge that we have to face and one that is much more difficult and much more complicated than construction,” Kerkentzes said.

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura has acknowledged there was a lot to be done in the coming year, especially in terms of the expo’s management. How traffic logistics will be handled during the event is being discussed by Osaka officials, and an updated action plan on traffic management, including what to do in case of a natural disaster, is expected to be issued this summer.

Meanwhile, of the 161 countries that have signed up to participate in the expo, construction of pavilions that the event's organizers are sponsoring for 100 countries is proceeding smoothly, said Jun Takashina, deputy secretary-general of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition.

“These buildings will be completed in July,” he told the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan on April 9.

More than 50 countries were expected to design and build their own pavilions. While 36 countries have found Japanese contractors, only 12 have actually broken ground for construction, Takashina said.

On the other hand, he added, a ringed wooden canopy with a 2 kilometer circumference that encompasses the expo and serves as its symbol is expected to be completed in September.

As construction continues, recruitment of a planned 20,000 expo volunteers is underway and will continue to the end of the month. They will provide visitors with information about the expo and individual pavilions in various languages. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old, speak Japanese and be willing to work three to six hours a day in exchange for expo uniforms and ¥2,000 per day for meals and transportation.

“We already have applications from 15,000 people,” Takashina said.

In addition to volunteers, recruitment for paid crew members during the expo begins Saturday.

As for events, World Expos hold National Day celebrations at each country’s pavilion, which often draw delegations of VIPs, including senior government leaders or members of royalty.

While Osaka Expo organizers do not yet know specifically which world leaders might be coming next year, National Day celebrations for 102 countries and four international organizations have been confirmed. Among these are Group of Seven members Italy, France, the European Union, the United Kingdom and Canada, as well as China, India, and Brazil.

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Tributes paid to wrestler, who was born Chad Rowan and became the sport’s first non-Japanese grand champion in 1993

Tributes have been paid in Japan to Akebono, the first foreign wrestler to reach the pinnacle of the sport of sumo , who has died aged 54.

The wrestler, who was born Chad Rowan in Hawaii, is regarded as a pioneer after he broke down cultural barriers in the centuries-old sport to become the first non-Japanese yokozuna grand champion in 1993.

He won 11 major sumo tournaments, which are held six times a year, before retiring in 2001 and turning to K-1 and professional wrestling. He was runner-up at 13 other tournaments, despite being plagued by injury.

Japanese media said the wrestler, who took the name Taro Akebono when he became a Japanese citizen in 1996, had died of heart failure this month, citing a statement by the US Forces in Japan.

Rahm Emanuel, the US ambassador to Japan, said he was “deeply saddened” by the news.

He said in a post on X that the wrestler, who was 203cm (6ft 8in) tall and weighed 233kg (514lb) at his heaviest, was “a giant in the world of sumo, a proud Hawaiian and a bridge between the United States and Japan.

“When Akebono became the first-ever foreign-born grand champion … he opened the door for other foreign wrestlers to find success in the sport.

“Throughout his 35 years in Japan, Akebono strengthened the cultural ties between the United States and his adopted homeland by uniting us all through sport. I send my sincerest condolences to his family and friends and to sumo fans everywhere.”

Akebono, who was a familiar face on Japanese TV, entered the sumo world in 1988, becoming the 64th yokozuna at the New Year tournament in Tokyo in January 1993. He became a stable master after retiring as a wrestler in 2001.

One of the heaviest and tallest rikishi, or wrestlers, in the sport’s history, Akebono and his fellow Hawaiian behemoth, the 287kg Konishiki, paved the way for a steady stream of foreign wrestlers, including five yokozuna from Mongolia .

Many sumo fans will remember Akebono for his fierce 1990s rivalry with the popular Japanese brothers and members of the sumo aristocracy, Takanohana and Wakanohana, both of whom went on to become grand champions.

Akebono is survived by his wife, daughter and two sons.

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‘Shogun’ Episode 8 Recap: Borrowed Time

As Toranaga trudges toward surrender, his closest allies wonder if the old samurai has really given up the fight.

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Season 1, Episode 8: ‘The Abyss of Life’

Lord Toranaga is a sick man. Sick in his heart, grieving the loss of his son Nagakado, who died in a vain fight on his father’s behalf. Sick in his body, having contracted an illness on the long road back to Edo for Nagakado’s burial. The central scene of this week’s “Shogun” — perhaps the scene from the series so far — confronts vassal and viewer alike with an even more troubling question, one that it draws out for minute after excruciating minute: Is Lord Toranaga sick in his mind as well?

Toranaga gathers his vassals in Edo to certify his big decision. He will not authorize Crimson Sky, the plan to attack Osaka and overthrow Lord Ishido and the Council of Regents. Once the customary mourning period is over, he will dutifully march off to his execution, and many of them must join him in marching to theirs. He wants their signatures to this effect.

The vassals are aghast. Lord Yabushige and his nephew Omi are the only ones who sign before protest breaks out. The vassals have a duty to give honest advice, and their advice is that this course of action is madness. To go down without a fight over a charge — that Toranaga is conspiring to kill the Heir — with no basis in reality whatsoever? Surely it’s better to stay in Edo and defend their home turf, where they have the advantage over Ishido’s forces.

No, Toranaga says. That would destroy the city, just as surely as marching on Osaka would destroy the realm. The survival of their clan is secondary to the survival of Japan, he argues.

The vassals’ argument coheres in an impassioned challenge from Hiromatsu, Toranaga’s oldest and closest friend, who begs him to stop “throwing away all we’ve fought for.” Hiromatsu threatens to commit seppuku on the spot if Toranaga persists in his plan to surrender. Minute after tense minute, the two go back and forth, barely stifling their tears in a grim game of chicken — but Toranaga won’t relent.

“So you do believe in pointless death,” Hiromatsu says, seemingly stunned. “Your vassal dies in vain.”

“Then die,” Toranaga replies.

The ritual of seppuku has been described and threatened by multiple characters since episode 1, but it isn’t until this point that “Shogun” finally depicts the act in graphic, agonizing detail. Indeed, Hiromatsu’s death scene functions as a microcosm of the whole series: teasing us with the taboo thrill of violence, then really making it hurt when it sinks the knife in.

The good-hearted Hiromatsu is the canvas on which the sound and effects team paint a grotesque portrait of metal tearing through flesh and muscle and viscera, until the sword of his son Buntaro, who Hiromatsu has asked to “second” the act, severs his head. It rolls directly toward Toranaga, like a grotesque accusation.

Here’s your code of honor, the show seems to say. Choke on it.

But this magnificent scene plays a second, unexpected purpose. As noted above, Toranaga spends the episode radiating loser vibes. He’s in mourning — the Regents grant him several weeks to grieve, as per custom, before he needs to report for his execution — and he’s physically sick. In his every action, he appears to have completely given up. Earlier in the episode, he goes so far as to dispatch Father Alvito, the diplomatic Portuguese priest, back to Osaka to report that he’s accepted his fate. (But first he grants the priest land for a new church — right next to the red light district he’s ordered up for Gin and Kiku’s courtesan operation. There goes the neighborhood.)

Deploying the priest plants the idea that maybe Toranaga’s planning to fight after all. As Hiromatsu points out to Mariko, why send a messenger to Osaka to report your willingness to die if you’re already on your way there?

In his challenge, Hiromatsu seeks to root out for the group what they’ve suspected: that the trickster Toranaga has something else planned. But by forcing his closest friend’s suicide, he convinces them all that the fight is truly lost. Blackthorne and Yabushige, who’ve been getting along surprisingly well, immediately form an alliance and steal Blackthorne’s ship, with the intention of unilaterally attacking Ishido’s Portuguese allies.

It took Hiromatsu’s death to convince Yabushige, who’d previously rejected the idea, to spurn his feudal obligations in favor of waging warfare by the Englishman’s side. Blackthorne is compelled after finally getting what he’s been asking for. When he’s reunited with what’s left of his crew, he’s shocked at an old mate’s barbaric manner and rage against the pilot for landing them in this mess. Blackthorne has no real home with them anymore. Better to fight by the side of “a brave [expletive]” like Yabushige.

Aside from Gin, the one character who sees a brighter future ahead, everyone seems to contract Toranaga’s despair and defeatism. Doing his absolute best to be a decent guy, Buntaro performs a lovely tea service for his wife, Lady Mariko, then asks her to kill herself with him that night. If he’s surrendering to a death sentence, he figures, best to finally grant her wish to take her own life. That way they’ll die together as husband and wife.

But Mariko rejects this out of hand, and she tears down her entire internal Eightfold Fence to let her husband know exactly why. She sought death as an escape, not a way to be united with Buntaro forever. The rejection reduces the gruff samurai to tears. Only the pleas of his father that he remain loyal to Toranaga, uttered just before he chops the old man’s head off, keep Buntaro from killing himself.

There’s a certain poetry in the narrative role Mariko plays next. As a translator, it’s been her job to relay other characters’ ideas and desires to one another. In the episode’s big twist, she helps Toranaga reveal his true intentions to viewers.

After defeating him in an impromptu poetry slam, she reports on the doings of Blackthorne and Yabushige, who until that point had refused to abandon Toranaga.

“He’ll change his mind after today,” Toranaga says. “Hiromatsu made sure of it.”

That’s when it all hit me like one of the Anjin’s cannonballs. Toranaga and Hiromatsu planned the entire awful spectacle of the older man’s seppuku. It was the only way, Toranaga says, that they could convince Lord Ishido and Lady Ochiba back in Osaka that his surrender is legitimate — which, of course, it is not. The man plans to fight. Scratch that, he plans to conquer.

Hiromatsu sacrificed his life for this plan. Inadvertently, Nagakado did too, as the mourning period has bought Toranaga valuable time. Having extracted this information from Toranaga, on his orders Mariko then makes a surprise visit to Yabushige and Blackthorne’s getaway ship, where she plans to continue serving as translator — and helping Toranaga wage war for the future of Japan.

I’m always impressed by an episode of television that requires much of its cast to act at the highest emotional tenor available. This hour of “Shogun” asked this of the actors Hiroyuki Sanada as Toranaga, Tokuma Nishioka as Hiromatsu, Anna Sawai as Mariko and Shinnosuke Abe as Buntaro, all of whom ace the assignment. Even Hiroto Kanai as Omi shines in a smaller role that carries a lot of the reaction to the central narrative: Reeling from the fluky death of his good friend, his coming separation from the woman he loves and the impending surrender, he senses that the system to which he has dedicated his life is locked in meaningless free-fall.

Next week’s episode is portentously titled “Crimson Sky,” named after Toranaga’s big battle plan. For all the horror of Hiromatsu’s seppuku, the violence used in “Shogun” often lends clarity of purpose to those who wield it. Perhaps the battlefield is where these lost souls will find themselves.

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