Christopher P. Hood

As for the movie, 栄光のバックホーム (Eikou-no Bakkuhomu), the true story of Hanshin Tigers player Shintaro Yokota, who died of a brain tumour in 2023... it was simply amazing. I have no tears left to cry.

#栄光のバックホーム #阪神タイガース #横田選手 #横田慎一郎

For the first time in possibly 31 years I went to the cinema in Japan. Didn't realise it would be THIS cinema when I booked the ticket.
The food and drink was so cheap compared to the UK.

‘Zom 100’ Contents Tourism in Shutoken (2) This is the fifth, and final (probably), contents tourism post related to Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (ゾン100 ゾンビになるまでにしたい100のこと), my favourite Japanese movie. In my previous post on this …

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By chance, I found myself very close to this convenience store again, so I decided to get my lunch from there and do some Zom 100 contents tourism.

#Zom100 #ゾン100 #ContentsTourism

Fuji from the air and Haneda Airport.

#Japan #MountFuji #富士山

YouTube video by vizmedia Akira's Finally Free! | Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead | VIZ

Zom 100. Well. I generally do like Zombie things. Saw like 5 episodes and approve. It definitely has plenty anime-trope-iness which i find at times annoying but some really cool moments. Definitely emphasizes the positives of the downfall of civilization

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While, now, thanks to a story in the news today, I can see why some people may confuse Luffy of One Piece with the iconic image of Tendo from Zom 100 - they are clearly different. Luffy has a hat, for one. In Tendo's 'Yatta' moment, he is also more smartly dressed.

#Zom100 #ゾン１００ #Luffy #OnePiece

Most of the leaves may be off the trees now at TUFS, but, on the first day of December, it's another sunny day in Tokyo. Not missing the grey of the UK 😂

#Japan

New Novel Title and Cover Reveal The title of my next novel is Officer’s Death Fall From Japan’s Floating Palace. This is the next book in the ‘Iwakura Series’, continuing the adventures of photojournalist ‘Rock’ Iwaku…

New Novel Title and Cover Reveal.

"Officer’s Death Fall From Japan’s Floating Palace" should be available in early 2026.

#Officer’sDeathFallFromJapan’sFloatingPalace #Japan #Cruise #Iwakura #IwakuraSeries #Novel #Book #WritingCommunity

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Fuji and wires

#Japan #MountFuji #富士山

Fuji creating shadows in the sky

#Japan #MountFuji #富士山

Back at ICU for the first time for a few years. First time to come for something other than a pastoral care trip for Cardiff University.

#JWC #JWC2025 #JapanWritersConference #Writing #WritingCommunity #Novels #Research #Japan

Looking forward to attending and speaking at the Japan Writers Conference.

I'll be speaking on 'Bridging Different Worlds: Academic Experiences and Writing Novels'

#JWC #JWC2025 #JapanWritersConference #Writing #WritingCommunity #Novels #Research #Japan

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Understanding the Hidden Clues in Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

📰 Understanding the Hidden Clues in Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

In the world of anime, subtle hints and foreshadowing can often go unnoticed until a pivotal moment brings them all...

🔗 https://animenewsdaily.us/articles/44342

#AnimeNews #Crunchyroll #Zom100BucketListOfTheDead

My Music Banzuke While I’m in Japan for my Japan Foundation Fellowship, based at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), as well as doing my research about symbols and Visual Packaging Culture, I am doing…

My Music Banzuke (a ranking of my favourite bands and singers)

#Music #Banzuke #Ranking #FrankieGoesToHollywood #REBECCA #レベッカ #Roxette #PerGessle #Berlin #HollyJohnson #PetShopBoys #Propaganda #xPropaganda #ThompsonTwins #TomBailey

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Dr. Jessica Young on assisted dying, the New Zealand End of Life Choice Bill, culturally responsive research, end of life care and decision making, and sociological approaches

This week Slovenia rejected an Assisted Dying bill making our latest episode even more timely as we speak to Dr Jessica Young about the development of a legal framework around assisted dying in New Zealand

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Is Japan Cheap? Further to my comments about ‘over tourism’ in Japan in the post Formal Prayers at Meiji Shrine, I am going to discuss another related issue; the price of things in Japan. The first thi…

Is Japan Cheap? (And why exchange rates matter)

#Japan #Cheap #Prices #ExchangeRates

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Exploring ecocriticism through Japanese disaster narratives PhD student Emily Bush is exploring ecocritical perspectives in media about historical Japanese disasters.

Cardiff University has done a short piece about the work that my PhD student, Emily Bush, is doing. The research explores ecocriticism through Japanese disaster narratives.

#Japan #DisasterStudies #DisasterNarratives #Ecocriticism

You can read the article here:
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Sumo wrestler Hitachiyama, c. 1910. | Old Tokyo "Advocates of Hitachiyama's greatness were not content to leave it at a single assertion. Recurring evaluations of the origins and continuing basis of his fame almost invariably cited three things to ...

Sumo wrestler Hitachiyama, c. 1910, a yokozuna [grand champion] from 1903-1914 who did much to popularize sumo into becoming the national sport during the Meiji and Taisho eras.

Drifting in the charts until Mike Reed? It was at No.35 before they did the first TOTP of 1984. It jumped to No.6. Then Reed had his rant. Next week it was No.2. Took another week to get to Number 1. Don't give Reed any credit for the song becoming the hit it deserved to be.

#FrankieGoesToHollywood

If you see this, QTP with an anime that has an awesome theme song 🎶
#anime #promosky #animesky

#zom100 #BucketlistOfTheDead

The (TV Series) Zom 100: Bucket List Of The Dead (Season 1) is available today on (iTunes) (US) for $9.99 Cast: Shuichiro Umeda, Zeno Robinson, Bill Millsap, Makoto Furukawa, Yûko Sasaki, Jill Remez, Abby Trott, Kate Clarke, Jamieson Price, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Xander Mobus

After my Zom 100 meal, I took the shinkansen back to Tokyo. On it, I started & finished Vol 21 of the Zom 100 manga. I've read all 21 in the last 2 months of being in Japan.

But

The next one isn't due out until March 😢

I'll just have to get the English versions in the meantime 😂

#ゾン100 #Zom100

I went back to the Nagoya izakaya where Tendo's welcome party in Zom 100 is held. Not only did the manager let me sit at the same table (despite being by myself when the table seats eight), he said he could do me the same menu. So that's what I did. やったー!!

#Zom100 #ゾン100 #聖地巡礼 #ContentsTourism

Just finished dinner. One of the people working at the restaurant is from Sri Lanka and thought I'm Japanese. This is a good day for internationalisation in Japan in my books; view based on language and mannerisms rather than nationality or ethnicity.

You know the drill

#Japan #MountFuji #富士山

Looking forward to going to Aichi University of Education (for the second time this year). Today I will be doing a lecture/talk/workshop on 'Foreign Language Learning'.

On my way to Nagoya

a man in a green jacket stands in front of a crowd of zombies ALT: a man in a green jacket stands in front of a crowd of zombies

That new Zom 100 chapter might have done of the coolest meta tie ins I’ve ever seen.

Still so insanely underrated as a manga.

Like I said, you can never have enough photos of Mount Fuji.

This time from Tama station on my way into central Tokyo.

#Japan #MountFuji #富士山