Uchujin -The Blog

Kenzaburo Oe (2nd from left) and Yamamoto Taro(right) lead the 19th September Anti-Nuclear march as it leaves Meiji park in Tokyo

The scenes that started in Meiji park around midday yesterday and continued through the day as a 50,000 people strong crowd, led by Kenzaburo Oe (winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1994) marched through the streets of Tokyo to protest Nuclear power are quite simply the most impressive thing I have ever seen in Japan.
The exact numbers in the crowd are in dispute (Police-29,000 , NHK 60,000) but my estimate would be around 50,000. Consisting of a mainly older demographic that is sure to worry the politicians, there was none of the Police violence of last weekend’s much smaller but younger demonstration in Shinjuku and the overall police presence was much smaller.

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I recently shot both a catalogue and a look book for the Tokyo based fashion label ‘Brilliant World‘.
Run by two great guys the shoots were both a lot of fun, plus they gave me some of their excellent T-shirts for free, always a bonus!
I’m really pleased with how both shoots turned out, so I’ll show a little sneak peak of the collection (that won’t be released for a few months yet) here but you can always head over to their website anyway as they have an interesting blog going on too. Read more…

It gives me great pleasure to present my latest short film, a collaboration with writer/photographer/armchair philosopher and handsome bastard – Mr Sean Lotman.
Written by and Staring Mr Lotman, it was filmed basically in 1 day on a 5DmkII at various locations around Tokyo and Directed, Shot and Edited by me.

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First up let me state this is NOT a gear review.
There are many sites you can go to if you want to read advertisments reviews by people who get sent free gear.

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5D in for repair? (*see note below)
No problem, shoot loads of clips using your iPhone 3GS , edit them together in Premiere Pro with some music from your old band and voila a music / personal confession video.

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Population of Japan – 127,000,000
Population of Tokyo – 13,000,000
No. of Muslims in Japan (estimate) – 100,000
No. of Japanese Muslims (estimate) – 10,000
No. who converted to Islam NOT for marriage(estimate) – 2 or 300
No. of Japanese Imam’s in Japan – 5
No. of Japanese Imam’s in Tokyo – 1

Abdullah Taqy is the only Japanese Imam in Tokyo.

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Dead man walking?

Music:-
‘Seaside’ by Decipher (a previous nom de plume of mine)

There’ll be no moratorium, no “it was a year of up’s and down’s” or any other nonsense.

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