DJ Wes has been climbing Japan's 100 famous mountains (Hyakumeizan) over the last five years. This is the final peak, Mt. Hijiri, Southern Alps, Elevation 3013 meters. Wes was accompanied by his wife Kanako and friends Yuuki and Fumito.

Video by Alex Brooke.

Posted by Rob.

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Since we've been offline for awhile, I thought we'd celebrate by uploading some vintage NFTOS footage! Previously unreleased footage from July 2007!

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Tags: NFTOS, Omaha, Lincoln, Nebraska, Hans, Makiko, Rolf, airport, interstate 80, SAC, Martin Buscaglia, CSS, Cansei de Ser Sexy

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Posted by Makiko.

I visited Patrick Widdess in his hometown of Cambridge and he gave me the grand tour before we recorded a session for Headstand, his show on 209 radio. He knew his stuff and in this video you can hear some of his recommendations for visiting the town. Well worth a visit and well worth looking Patrick up if you are in town.

A big thank you to Patrick for being such a great host and tour guide. A big shout out to Patrick Sheil ( front man of the moth conspiracy ) for your excellent music, poetry and general excellence.
And a domo arigato to 209 radio for letting me in your studios.

Posted by Alex.

Tags: Patrick Widdess, Headstand, King's college, Cambridge, 209 radio, Headstand, Patrick Sheil, Moth conspiracy

This guy makes some pretty interesting and entertaining videos about Tokyo. This is his vlog #39, which was posted on the 5th, so it's hot off the press!



Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, Tokyo, Cooney, YouTube, Pipo, Kyuta, vlog, Japan, sushi, life, living, blog, police

This is a clip of Ivan (also in our Tin's Hall video) philosophizing after a few shots of tequila and maybe an absinthe or two... The poster is hanging in Restaurante El Pancho in Shinsaibashi, Osaka. Posted by Rob.

Tags: Tequila, Mexico, Japan, Osaka, Ivan, absinthe, philosophy, sociology, sociología, global politics, Latin America

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The ubiquitous Osaka web project dreamt up and run by James Russell and Erik Archer recently received its millionth page view. I had the pleasure of DJ'ing at the Bike Club Osaka kickoff party back in March of 2005, and have also presented art at their events, used their website to promote my own events, and helped promote their events and the website in a variety of ways since. Now I hear there's a Bike Club Tokyo in the works, and I hope to be a part of that in some way or another as well. This podcast is one of a couple of "interview" segments Alex and I did with Erik back in February or March of this year. Those were heady days for all of us. We were hyper-inspired and trying hard to figure out how to channel all the creative energy in the most effective ways we could. We're older and wiser now, I assure you! Since that time Bike Club has surfaced in many forms all over Osaka and Japan, including in print. Here Erik is on the cover of the Kansai Scene September 2006 issue featuring an article on alternate careers to the seemingly standard "eikaiwa" teaching job many English speaking foreigners have in Japan. Cover photo by Akif Hakan Celebi. More on the photographer. Posted by Rob.

Hans and Jim wrap up Cinco de Mayo festivities* and prepare to go out birdwatching at night and all day the next day which would've been 6 May...!? Honestly, I don't really get it either. *(Aparently Cinco de Mayo is getting really big in America and they're talking about making it a national holiday someday). Other stuff about Hans or by him: http://newsfromtheotherside.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=90494 ... I'll post his other links soon, but for now, just have a look around NFTOS and you'll find him several times! This post is by Rob.

Rolf & Carys recently visited Osaka, and here is a little glimpse of Japan as seen through their lens. I'll have a photo for this post in the morning. Something happened to the banner art again as well. Oops! Sorry 'bout that Alex. I should stay out of the settings. This post is by Rob.