Photography CHIKA TAKAMI
Last week, Highsnobiety ran a silly think piece on why Japan is really overrated, using such poorly researched points as its transit system—one of the world’s most efficient once you know how to use it—and similarities to Singapore (?) to make a weak, clickbait-y case. While the country is certainly misunderstood on many levels, calling it boring or sorely lacking its own “authentic” culture is simply lazy.
We’ll be sharing many reasons why soon with the launch of a new travel + culture site called Cartogramme. In the meantime, here’s one example: an imminent exhibition at Tokyo’s Lifestyle Design Center that tackles the portable turntable collection of record shop owner Fumihito Taguchi. Running between July 30th and August 28th, the show is centered on 100 different players that were first immortalized in a book last year. Check out a sampling of Taguchi’s prized possessions below…
