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Felicity Tillack

In the week before CC’s closed, customers lined up in the rain to pay a final visit to the longstanding cafe.

COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element

Mar 6, 2026

Kyoto bids farewell to a storied poets’ cafe

Opened by American poet Cid Corman in 1974, CC’s in Nakagyo Ward had served as an important gathering ground for the literary community.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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