by Simon Moran | Jul 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
In this column, we resurrect an old favourite, the object less ordinary. Here we look at a summer essential, and unfurl our fan. Cool Biz has been with us for weeks, bringing short sleeves and lighter, more casual clothing; the rainy season is already a distant...
by Simon Moran | Jul 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
In 1970, Osaka presented a dream of the future. In 2025, it’s trying to live one. Expo 70 gave Japan its coming-out party on the global stage, a kind of kinetic national debut that swept away the ashes of war and declared its high-tech rebirth. With its translucent...
by Simon Moran | Jul 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Twenty–five years ago, I wrote ‘Glimpse Back at a Future City’, a 30-year look at Expo 70. Now, at the 55-year mark, that event still crackles with relevance. In 1970, under the banner ‘Progress and Harmony for Mankind’, 64 million people streamed into Suita to...
by Simon Moran | Apr 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Bilingual Edition おいしい紅茶はいかが？カッパ：バイリンガル版 Originally published in Kansai Time Out, February 1999. Shortened for 2025. Contact information, prices and statistics may be out of date. This bilingual edition contains the full English article first. Please scroll down...
by Simon Moran | Nov 26, 2024 | Personal, Travel
It’s been a year of travel, in- and outbound, and a couple of years of cutting ties, letting bad blood and re-connecting with those and that important. Waking up properly after hibernation a couple of years ago, we realised some were still sleeping, or were...
